Linda Hunt

Linda Hunt is the announcer for the KQED public radio lecture/interview show City Arts & Lectures. In USA. Beside her acting abilities, her two most distinguishing characteristics are her small stature (she is 4' 9" or 1.45 m), and her rich, resonant voice which she has used effectively in numerous documentaries, cartoons, and commercials. In Australia. Her movie debut was in the film Popeye. Kidman was cast in The Producers however has had to pull out due to filming "Eucalpytus" in Australia, Kidmans first native film since Moulin Rouge!. Her best known roles are as the male half-Chinese dwarf Billy Kwan in the movie The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) (for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress) and as Judge Zoey Hiller on the television series The Practice. Emma's War, Alexander The Great, The Interpreter, Bewitched and the Australian movie "Eucalpytus" also starring Russell Crowe are future movies for Kidman.

Linda Hunt (born April 2, 1945) is an American actress. Later, she collaborated with Robbie Williams on the song Somethin' Stupid, a cover of the old swing song on Williams' swing covers album Swing When You're Winning (debuting and peaking at #8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at #1 for three weeks in the UK, also becoming the UK Christmas #1 Single for 2001). Linda Hunt's Internet Movie Database entry (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/). Her collaboration with Ewan McGregor on the song Come What May, from the film's soundtrack debuted and peaked at #27 on the UK Singles Chart. Fame (1978). Not known as a singer prior to Moulin Rouge!, Kidman surprised critics and fans with her charming singing voice in the film. Space Rangers (1993). This year (2005) she has visited to the tsunami-hit regions of SE Asia..

The Practice (1997). Nicole Kidman was selected as the New South Wales Australian of the Year 2005 for her success as an actress, contribution to helping those less fortunate than herself, and because she inspires other Australians to achieve their dreams. Popeye (1980). Nicole's charity work is so highly regarded that in (2004) she was honoured as a 'Citizen of the World' by the United Nations. The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). Her outstanding work helps raise money for and draw attention to the plight of and the most disadvantaged children in Australia and around the world. Dune (1984). She has been a high profile Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Australia since 1994.

Silverado (1985). Nicole publicly supports a variety of charities and causes. Kindergarten Cop (1990). Apart from being an outstanding actress, Nicole is an inspirational role model. Pocahontas (1995). She won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Virginia Woolf in The Hours: for the same film she won a BAFTA award. The film had received a much better reception when shown previous to release at Cannes.

Despite the poor reception, the film was nominated for the prestigious Golden Lion Award. In September of the same year, Kidman's film Birth in which the 37 year-old actress' character falls in love with a 10 year-old boy (played by Cameron Bright), which she believed to be a reincarnation of her dead husband, was badly received. In 2004, Kidman appeared in the remake of The Stepford Wives alongside Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Bette Midler. In the same year she took a hand at production for the film In the Cut.

While in Australia filming Moulin Rouge!, Kidman injured her knee, so Jodie Foster had to replace her in Panic Room. Kidman's most professionally successful year was 2001, with her Oscar-nominated performance in Moulin Rouge! and well-received star turn in a horror film, The Others. She did however win a Golden Globe award. Although media speculation thought that she would earn an Academy Award nomination for her performance, it was not to be.

She was featured in the all-star cast of Batman Forever and later that same year she starred in To Die For, earning high praise from critics. 1995 was to bring much success. Later, in 1999, she was in Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick's final film, when she co-starred with her husband as a married couple for the second time. After “Days of Thunder“ she starred with Cruise 1992 in Ron Howard's Far and Away.

After ten years’, the marriage was dissolved in 2001: there was much media speculation about the reasons for this, but both celebrities maintained their privacy and were guarded in their public comments. The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and lived in Los Angeles, California, Australia, Colorado, and New York. Cruise divorced Rogers and the couple married on Christmas Eve of 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. Although Cruise was married to actress Mimi Rogers at the time, he and Kidman became “an item“.

Her American debut was in Days of Thunder (1990), a stock-car racing movie opposite Tom Cruise. In 1989 she made the film which would gain her notice in the USA: Dead Calm. During the 1980s she appeared in several Australian movies and TV series, notably including the soap opera A Country Practice, the mini-series Vietnam (1986) and Bangkok Hilton (1989). By the end of the year she had secured a supporting role in the television series Five Mile Creek, and four film roles, including BMX Bandits and Bush Christmas.

Her first appearance on film came in 1983 when, as a 15 year-old, she appeared in the Pat Wilson music video for the song "Bop Girl". She had dropped out of North Sydney Girls' High School at the time her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Kidman concentrated on her family responsibilities until her mother's recovery. Martin's Youth Theatre in Melbourne, the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, and then to the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in voice production and theatre history. She had started taking ballet lessons when she was three, and this led to studies at St.

Nicole’s studied first at the North Sydney High School. The family returned to Australia when Nicole four years old., when Tony Kidman took on a lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her father was a cancer research specialist in Washington, D.C; because of which Nicole was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kidman is the daughter of Dr Antony David Kidman, and his wife Janelle Ann (nee Glenny).

Nicole (Mary) Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is an Australian actress and singer. Somethin' Stupid Single (Duet with Robbie Williams - 2001). Come What May Single (Duet with Ewan McGregor - 2001). Birth (2004).

The Stepford Wives (2004). Dogville (2004). Cold Mountain (2003). The Human Stain (2003).

Dogville (2003). The Hours (2002). Birthday Girl (2001). The Others (2001).

Moulin Rouge! (2001). Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Practical Magic (1999). The Peacemaker (1997).

The Portrait of a Lady (1996). The Leading Man (1996) (minor). To Die For (1995). Batman Forever (1995).

My Life (1993). Malice (1993). Far and Away (1992). Flirting (1992).

Billy Bathgate (1991). Days of Thunder (1990). Dead Calm (1989). Emerald City (1988).

The Bit Part (1987). Watch the Shadows Dance (aka Nightmaster) (1986). Windrider (1986). Archer's Adventure (1985).

Wills & Burke (1985). BMX Bandits (1983). Bush Christmas (1983). In August 2004, the Australian magazine BRW listed Kidman as the richest Australian woman under the age of 40, with an estimated worth of 155 million A$ (Australian dollars), or $107 million in United States dollars.

Kidman is also a well renowned fashion paradigm and a frequent "Best Dressed" staple. Kidman's sister Antonia is an entertainment reporter for an Australian television program, and also has her own very successful parenting program title 'The Little Things' set to be syndicated around the world.