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 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