Nicole Scherzinger Nicole Scherzinger Nicole Scherzinger (; born Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente; June 29, 1978) is an American singer, actress, and television personality. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, she initially performed in high school plays, and studied at Wright State University before dropping out to pursue a musical career touring alongside American rock band Days of the New and through "Popstars", became part of the short-lived girl group Eden's Crush. Scherzinger rose to fame as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls and released the albums "PCD" (2005) and "Doll Domination" (2008) becoming one of the world's best-selling
Nicole Kidman films, including the horror-thriller "The Others" (2001) and the epic war drama film "Cold Mountain" (2003), as she achieved critical acclaim for roles in independent films, including the dramas "Dogville" (2003), "Birth" (2004), and "Rabbit Hole" (2010), for which she received a third Best Actress Oscar nomination, and the thriller "The Paperboy" (2012). Kidman earned a fourth Oscar nomination for playing a troubled mother in the biopic "Lion" (2016). She returned to television in 2017 with an acclaimed performance as a victim of domestic abuse in the HBO series "Big Little Lies", for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award