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Antonia Kidman | |
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| Born | 14 July 1970 Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, television presenter |
| Spouses | Angus Hawley
(m. 1996; div. 2007)Craig Marran
(m. 2010) |
| Children | 6 |
| Parent(s) | Antony Kidman Janelle Glenny |
| Relatives | Nicole Kidman (sister) |
Antonia Kidman (born 14 July 1970[citation needed]) is an Australian journalist and TV presenter, and the younger sister of actress Nicole Kidman.
Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1970, Kidman is the younger daughter of Antony Kidman, a clinical psychologist.[1] She attended Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney.[2]
Kidman began her career in journalism as a researcher with the Nine Network's Today program, and later worked as a news reporter for the Newcastle based television network, NBN Television. She has had a long professional involvement with Foxtel, and in 2002 presented her own series, The Little Things, an instructional series about raising children on the W. Channel. In 2003, she released a yoga video called Antonia Fitness Yoga: The Power And Style of Ashtanga.[3] This was followed by the series The Bigger Things in 2006.
In 2008, Kidman was awarded Favourite Female Personality at the ASTRA Awards for the second time.[4] In 2010, she became the "ambassador" for a Chinese travel agency, Book China Online.[5]
Kidman has co-written two books about parenting: Feeding Fussy Kids (2009) and The Simple Things: Creating an Organised Home, a Happy Family and A Life Worth Living (2012).[6]
Kidman's community involvement has included the Royal Hospital for Women Foundation's Mother's Day Appeal, Randwick Mothers' Hospital, the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Taronga Zoo Foundation in Sydney.[citation needed]
Kidman married Angus Hawley in February 1996. Their wedding took place in the Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College chapel with her sister Nicole Kidman and her then-husband Tom Cruise present. Together, Kidman and Hawley have four children: two daughters, Lucia (born 1998) and Sybella (born 2007) and two sons, Hamish "Hamey" (born 2001) and James (born 2003). In May 2007, Hawley and Kidman's 11-year marriage ended. Kidman remained with the children in the family home in Greenwich, Sydney, and the couple continued to share the responsibility of parenting their children.[7] Hawley died of a heart attack in April 2015, aged 46.[8]
In April 2010, Kidman married Craig Marran, a Singapore-based businessman.[9] Kidman and Marran have two sons, Nicholas (born December 2010),[10] and Alexander Norman Kidman Marran (born December 2012).[11]
