Famous Australian Celebrities (Continue): 1.)Rebel Wilson Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson (born 3 February) is an Australian actress, writer, entrepreneur, and stand-up comedian. She began appearing as Toula in the SBS comedy series Pizza from 2003 and made several appearances in the sketch comedy series The Wedge. In 2008, Wilson wrote, produced and starred in the musical comedy series Bogan Pride. The following year, she won the Tropfest Best Actress award for her role in Bargain and made a guest appearance in City Homicide. Shortly after moving to the United States, Wilson was cast as Brynn in the feature film Bridesmaids. She also appeared in A Few Best Men, What to Expect When Youre Expecting and Struck by Lightning, leading Variety to name her one of their Top Ten Comics to Watch for 2011. Wilson also appeared as Becky in Bachelorette and starred in musical-comedy Pitch Perfect, where her role as Fat Amy earned her several award nominations. Wilson created and stars in Super Fun Night, a television comedy which began airing on the ABC network on 2 October 2013. 2.) Nicole Kidman Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress, singer and film producer.[2] Kidmans film career began in 1983. She starred in various Australian film and television productions until her breakthrough in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), and Batman Forever (1995). She followed these with other successful films in the late 1990s. Her performance in the musical, Moulin Rouge! (2001) earned her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as Virginia Woolf in the drama film The Hours (2002) received critical acclaim and earned Kidman the Academy Award for Best Actress. Kidmans other notable films include To Die For (1995), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), The Others (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), The Interpreter (2005) and Australia (2008). Her performance in 2010s Rabbit Hole (which she also produced) earned Kidman further accolades, including a third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2012, she earned her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in Hemingway & Gellhorn. Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994[3] and for UNIFEM since 2006.[4] In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia,[5] and was also the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry.[6] As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States.[7] Kidman founded and owns the production company Blossom Films. 3.) Frances OConnor Born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father,[2] her family moved to Perth, Australia when OConnor was two.[3] Raised a Roman Catholic,[4][5] OConnor attended the Mercedes College in Perth. She then went on to attend the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and earned a BA in literature from the Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. OConnor and her long-term partner, Gerald Lepkowski, have a son, Luka, born in April 2005. 4.) Miranda Otto Miranda Otto (born 16 December 1967) is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Barry and Lindsay Otto and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, Otto began her acting career in 1986, and has performed in a variety of independent and major studio films. Otto made her major film debut in Emmas War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australias bush country during World War II. After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, Otto gained Hollywoods attention during the 1990s after appearing in supporting roles in the films The Thin Red Line and What Lies Beneath. She become a household name in the early 2000s for playing Éowyn in Peter Jacksons The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. 5.) Hugo Weaving Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is a British-Australian film and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy and Elrond in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy and The Hobbit film trilogy. He first rose to prominence for his performance as Martin in Proof. Other notable works include Tick in The Adventures of Priscilla, V in V for Vendetta, Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger and multiple roles in Cloud Atlas. He has also provided the voice Rex in Babe, Noah in Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two and Megatron in the Transformers film series as well as starring in numerous Australian character dramas. He has received many award nominations and wins during his career, including a Satellite Award, an MTV Movie Award and several Australian Film Institute Awards.
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