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Nicole Mary Kidman is the eldest of two children. His sister, Antonia Kidman , will become a journalist . His father, the D r Anthony David Kidman biochemist , psychologist and writer . He has a practice at Lane Cove, New South Wales , Australia 10 , 11 , 12 . Her mother, Janelle Ann Glenny, is a teacher in a nursing school and a member of the Women's Electoral Lobby. She publishes her husband's books. When Nicole Kidman was born in 1967, her father was a visiting professor at the National Institute of Mental Health of Canada.United States . The family returns to Australia when little Nicole is four years old. His parents live in North Shore, near Sydney . Nicole Kidman has Irish ascendants by her ancestors, James and Bridget Callachor, established in Sydney in 1842 13 . Raised a Catholic, she was educated in public schools in Lane Cove and North Sydney Girls' High School, religious schools for girls of good society 14 . She discovered herself at a very young age a real passion for classical dance , before turning to the theater that allows her to fight her shyness (she is complexed by her red and curly hair, and her big size: 5 feet 10 inches at the adult age, about 1.78 m ) 15 . The director Jane Campion 's mark on stage from the age of thirteen and wants to play in a short film but the school prohibited him to miss 16. In 1984, breast cancer diagnosed in his mother forced Nicole Kidman, then aged 17, to interrupt his studies and working as a masseuse therapist to support the family 17 . It takes its course at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne then, with Naomi Watts at the Phillip Street Theater in Sydney before applying successfully in the Australian Theater for Young People 18 .