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 filmography for which she received a nomination at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kidman played novelist Martha Gellhorn in the television biopic "Hemingway & Gellhorn" (2012), for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination. She played actress and princess Grace Kelly in the biopic "Grace of Monaco" (2014), and starred as an evil taxidermist in the comedy "Paddington". The following year, Kidman portrayed writer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell in the biopic "Queen of the Desert" (2015). For her supporting acting performance in the 2016 biographical drama "Lion", she received nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe