Nicole Kidman has been unable to receive an award for best actress at the Venice International Film Festival in person after the sudden death of her "beautiful, brave" mother. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading The 57-year-old Australian was awarded for her risque role in the erotic Babygirl, where she plays a hard-nosed CEO who jeopardises both her career and her family by having a toxic affair with a young, manipulative intern played by Harris Dickinson. Speaking to the audience at the festival on Saturday night via a note read out by Babygirl director Halina Reijn, Kidman said her "heart is broken".
"Today I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after, that my beautiful, brave mother Janelle Ann Kidman has just passed," it read. "I am in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her, she shaped me, she guided me, and she made me. "I am beyond grateful that I get to say her name to all of you through Halina, the collision of life and art is heart-breaking, and my heart is broken.
"We love you all." Kidman told the Fresh Air podcast in 2022 that her mother was experiencing a string of health issues. She added they had managed to visit the Art Gallery of New South Wales to see the Matisse: Life and Spirit; exhibition, which she desribed as like a "soothing balm".
Kidman said she felt lucky to be able to see the world through her mother's eyes, and described her outlook as "so beneficial". "I'm at the place where I'm being given the chance to view.