BETTE MIDLER & NICOLE KIDMAN, BORN IN HONOLULU

Today, The Stones continue relaxing at their hotel in Honolulu and enjoying their private beach. They have received the visit of two women who were born in Honolulu and nowadays are famous and popular cinema stars. Bette Midler and Nicole Kidman.

Bette Midler (December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, author, and comedienne. She has won four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in Fiddler on the Roof and Salvation on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist, selling over 30 million records worldwide, and has received four Gold, three Platinum, and three Multiplatinum albums by RIAA.

Many of her songs became chart hits, including her renditions of The Rose, Wind Beneath My Wings, Do You Want to Dance, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, and From a Distance. She won Grammy Awards for Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for The Rose, and Record of the Year for Wind Beneath My Wings.

Midler made her motion picture debut in 1979 with The Rose, which earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in numerous hit films, including Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Ruthless People (1986), Outrageous Fortune (1987), Big Business (1988), Beaches (1988), Hocus Pocus (1993), The First Wives Club (1996), The Stepford Wives (2004), Parental Guidance (2012), and The Addams Family (2019).

Midler also had starring roles in For the Boys (1991) and Gypsy (1993), winning two additional Golden Globe Awards for these films and receiving a second Academy Award nomination for the former.

In 2008, Midler signed a contract with Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for a residency, Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On, which ended in 2010. She starred in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, which began previews in March 2017 and premiered at the Shubert Theatre in April 2017. The show was her first leading role in a Broadway musical. Midler received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance.

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My idea of superwoman is someone
who scrubs her own floors.

Bette Midler

 

Nicole Mary Kidman (20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and producer.

She has received an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. She was listed among the world's highest-paid actresses in 2006, 2018 and 2019.

Time magazine twice named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2004 and 2018.

Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film Dead Calm and the miniseries Bangkok Hilton. In 1990, she made her Hollywood debut in the racing film Days of Thunder, opposite Tom Cruise. She went on to achieve wider recognition with lead roles in Far and Away (1992), Batman Forever (1995), To Die For (1995) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying the writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were as a courtesan in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) and emotionally troubled mothers in the dramas Rabbit Hole (2010) and Lion (2016).

Kidman's other film credits include The Others (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), Dogville (2003), Birth (2004), Australia (2008), The Paperboy (2012), Paddington (2014), Destroyer (2018), Aquaman (2018) and Bombshell (2019).

Her television roles include two projects for HBO, the biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) and the drama series Big Little Lies (2017-2019).

The latter earned Kidman the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Limited Series.

Kidman has been a Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006.

In 2006, she was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia. Since she was born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship of Australia and the United States.

In 2010, she founded the production company Blossom Films. She has been married to singer Keith Urban since 2006, and was earlier married to Tom Cruise.

Being born in Hawaii, she was given the Hawaiian name Hōkūlani, meaning heavenly star. The inspiration came from a baby elephant born around the same time at the Honolulu Zoo.

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 mother now lives on Sydney's North Shore. Kidman has a younger sister, Antonia Kidman, a journalist and TV presenter.

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 Life has got all those twists and turns.
You've got to hold on tight and off you go.
 

Nicole Kidman