Watch: Nicole Kidman’s Daughter Sunday Rose Reveals Her Prom Look
Nicole Kidman is kind of iconic when it comes to picking herself up and dusting herself off.
“Well, I can wear heels now,” the 5-foot-11 actress replied on The Late Show in August 2001 when David Letterman asked how life was treating her amid her divorce from roughly 4-inches-shorter Tom Cruise.
Not that the Oscar winner came out firing with the sick burns in the wake of her divorce from Keith Urban last fall (though it sparked remembrances of that instant-classic moment), but she has experience with processing loss and coming out clear-eyed and hopeful on the other side.
Noting that she was doing “all right,” Kidman told Variety in March, “I’m always going to be moving toward what’s good. What I’m grateful for is my family and keeping them as is and moving forward. That’s that.”
Keeping her family as is includes staying based in Nashville, where she and Urban have been raising their daughters Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith Margaret, 15. (Not to mention, her dear friend Reese Witherspoon lives within walking distance.)
“We have our life here,” Kidman—who’s also mom to daughter Isabella, 33, and son Connor, 31, with Cruise—explained. “I’m part of the city and community for 20 years. It’s my home.”
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And Sunday, who’s been modeling for the likes of Miu Miu and Dior for the last couple of years, credited good ol’ high school in Nashville for keeping her grounded.
“The privilege of having these experiences and meeting so many new people is so amazing,” the recent prom-goer said in Elle Australia‘s March cover story, “but as a teenager it’s so easy to get sucked in to all of it so fast.”
At the same time, she added, “My mum is a really good traveler, so she has taught me how to be one, too, which makes it so fun to travel and enjoy all the different places.”
Kidman is certainly an expert, her destinations so far this year including Chile and Antarctica for fun, Paris Fashion Week for Chanel’s runway show, New York to promote her latest series Scarpetta, Hollywood to present at the Oscars and Las Vegas, where she and Sandra Bullock bewitched CinemaCon attendees with a sneak peek at Practical Magic 2.
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The Australian actress was admittedly “quiet” last year, due to “other things going on,” she told Variety, but “now I’m in a place of saying, ‘2026. Here we go.'”
And why stop there?
“I rally against limitations,” the 58-year-old continued. “I can explore all these things [through acting roles]—and I’m like that in my personal life. This year and my next few years are for the adventures. I’m at a certain time in my life. I’m going to do the things I’ve always dreamt of doing that are not anything to do with work.”
Aside from teasing upcoming family trips to the Galápagos Islands and Peru to hike Machu Picchu, she makes regular jaunts to Sydney to visit her sister Antonia Kidman. And the Hours star recently shared that she’s trying to get certified as a death doula, remembering “how there was only so much the family could provide” when her mother Janelle Ann Kidman died in September 2024.
“So that’s part of my expansion,” she said during an April 11 talk at the University of San Francisco for the school’s Silk Speaker Series, “and something I’ll be learning.”
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Noting a week later that people seemed either “confused or intrigued” by that revelation, she said the training had been “really fascinating” so far.
“It’s very beautiful, and you have to be a certain personality to be able to do it,” Kidman told an audience April 18 at Philadelphia’s Marian Anderson Hall at the Kimmel Center. “But I found out that I’m actually that personality.”
However, that doesn’t mean she’ll be changing careers anytime soon.
Though she considered retiring from acting when she first moved to Nashville—her mom encouraged her to not “completely give up”—she soon realized that was not in her DNA. In fact, that was around the time she started producing, as well.
“I’m a worker bee,” the actress, who’s enjoyed a 40-year run as a movie and prestige-TV star, explained. “I love to be in the world working, and I love to provide work if I can for others, and I love to do the work.”
The Nine Perfect Strangers alum also made a rare reference to her split from Urban when she talked about exploring the U.S., sharing, “I love that I’ve seen it in a very specific way. I’ve seen all elements of it filming in different states, living in California, but also my ex-husband traveled on a tour bus all over America. It’s actually extraordinary because of the people.”
But when she’s not working, it’s her daughters who make her world go round.
For instance, while she’d love to return to the stage at some point, especially off-Broadway or doing regional theater, “now is not the time” for that sort of time-consuming commitment. As she told Variety, “I’ve got to take care of these kids. That’s sort of in my ‘Future’ folder. I’ve got to fill this summer with kid stuff.”
And while you mark the Sept. 11 release of Practical Magic 2 on your calendar—”I’ll be in full witch mode,” she promised—see how Kidman has transformed onscreen through the years:
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