How sweet: Nicole Kidman’s husband, Keith Urban, dedicated a recent prize he won to Kidman:
Keith Urban tonight dedicated his Aria award for best Country
album to wife Nicole Kidman – "his inspiration".
Picking up the gong for his album Love, Pain & The Whole
Crazy Thing, Urban paid special thanks to his Oscar winning
wife.
"It (the album) would not exist without my wife, she was the
inspiration for it," he said from the stage as Kidman blew him a
kiss from their table.
Later he told reporters he recorded the album at their Nashville
home.
"She is very prevalent in most of the songs," Urban said.
But he said fans shouldn’t expect a duet from the couple any
time soon.
"I promise not to act as well, so it’s a fair deal," he
joked.
The thing is, we know that Nicole Kidman can sing from her performance in Moulin Rouge. No one, as yet, knows whether Urban can act. Here’s a brief bio of Kidman:
Once relegated to decorative parts for years and long acknowledged as the wife of Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman spent the latter half of the 1990s and the first decade
of the new millennium earning much-deserved critical respect. Standing
a willowy 5’11" and sporting one of Hollywood’s most distinctive heads
of frizzy red hair, the Australian actress first entered the American
mindset with her role opposite Cruise in Days of Thunder (1990), but it
wasn’t until she starred as a homicidal weather girl in Gus Van Sant‘s 1995 To Die For that she achieved recognition as a thespian of considerable range and talent.
Though many assume that the heavily-accented Kidman hails from
down under, she was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 20,
1967, to Australian parents. Her family, who lived on the island
because of a research project that employed Kidman’s biochemist father,
then moved to Washington, D.C. for the next three years. After her
father’s project reached completion, Nicole and her family — which
also included her RN mother and a younger sister — harkened back to
Aussie country.
Raised in the upper-middle-class Sydney suburb of Longueville
for the remainder of the 1970s and well into the eighties, Kidman grew
up infused with a love of the arts, particularly dance and theatre.
Trained in ballet from the age of three, she made her acting debut in a
nativity play at six. By the age of ten, she was studying acting in
drama school, and she subsequently trained at the St. Martin’s Youth
Theatre in Melbourne and at Sydney’s Phillip Street Theatre.
A lot more information on Nicole Kidman here.
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