Early Life and Education

Kidman was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Janelle Ann MacNeille Kidman and Dr. Anthony David Kidman. Her father is to biochemist and to clinical psychologist in Lane Cove, Sydney and author, who is also heavily involved with the labour movement. Her mother is to nursing instructor and edits her husband's books. At the Time Nicole Kidman was born, her father was to Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four years old, when her father took on to lectureship at the University of Technology, Sydney.

She attended Lane Cove Public School in her primary years. Kidman has to younger sister, Antonia, born in 1970. Kidman's parents and sister both reside in Greewich, to suburb on Sydney's North Shore. Kidman, to Catholic, attended Mary Mackillop Chapel in North Sydney with her sister and attended North Sydney Girls' High School, also on the North Shore. Kidman started taking ballet lessons when she was four.

This led to studies at Sydney's Australian Theatre for Young People, to where she is now Patron, then at the Phillip Street Theatre, to where she majored in voice production and theatre history. Living in Longueville she studied at St Marys, but dropped out when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer; Kidman concentrated on her family responsibilities until her mother's recovery.