Nicole Kidman is an Australian actress, singer, film producer, and humanitarian. Nicole Mary Kidman is her birth name, she actually was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Australian parents Anthony & Janelle. Kidman began her career in 1983, starring in various Australian film and television productions until her breakthrough in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. In 1973, Nicole Kidman was passed over for the role of Little Orphan Annie in the musical Annie because she was taller than the boy playing Daddy Warbucks.