Nicole Kidman name "Hōkūlani". The inspiration for the name came from a baby elephant born around the same time at the Honolulu Zoo, but the name is also a commonly used Hawaiian name for girls, Hokulani meaning "Heavenly Star". At the time of Kidman's birth, her father was a graduate student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He became a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health of the United States. Opposed to the war in Vietnam, Kidman's parents participated in anti-war protests while living in Washington, D.C. The family returned to Australia when Kidman was four and her
Nicole Kidman Robbie Williams confirmed he had a short romance with Kidman on her yacht in summer 2004. Kidman has also said she twice tried to attract the attention of talk-show host Jimmy Fallon, that she had "liked" him and had even found a pretext to be introduced to him at his apartment, but Fallon hadn't understood her intentions. In a 2007 "Vanity Fair" interview, Kidman revealed that she had been secretly engaged to someone prior to her present relationship to New Zealand-Australian country singer Keith Urban, whom she met at , an event honouring Australians, in January 2005. Kidman married Urban