The actress left the festival early after receiving the news, saying her “heart is broken” in a message to the Venice Film Festival audience. Nicole Kidman has been unable to receive her award for best actress at the Venice International Film Festival in person after the death of her “beautiful, brave” mother. The 57-year-old Australian was awarded for her risque role in the erotic Babygirl , where she plays a hard-nosed chief executive 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”. It read: “Today I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after, that my beautiful, brave mother Janelle Ann Kidman has just passed”..
