- Nicole Kidman has four children: Isabella and Connor, adopted with Tom Cruise, and Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, born during her marriage to Keith Urban
- Her two oldest children are estranged from her, a wound that deepened when neither attended her AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024
- Sunday Rose, her eldest biological daughter, just walked the runway at New York Fashion Week and is already the face of Miu Miu at 17 years old
There are actresses, and then there is Nicole Kidman. Five decades in the industry, an Oscar on her shelf, and a filmography worth over five billion dollars. But ask anyone who has followed her story closely, and they will tell you that the most complicated, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly beautiful chapter of her life has nothing to do with a movie. It is her story as a mother. Four children across two marriages. A Scientology estrangement that has lasted over two decades. A daughter who just opened Paris Fashion Week at 16. And a family that has never once been photographed all together in the same room. Here is everything you need to know about Nicole Kidman’s children.
Isabella and Connor: The Children Tom Cruise Kept
Nicole Kidman was just 25 when she adopted her first child, Isabella, with her then husband, Tom Cruise, back in 1992. Adoption also gave the couple their second child, Connor, in 1995. The decision to adopt was not taken lightly. As Kidman told Vanity Fair, “From the minute Tom and I were married, I wanted to have babies. And we lost a baby early on, so that was really very traumatic. And that’s when it came that we would adopt Bella.”
For the eleven years they were together, Kidman and Cruise presented as a devoted family unit. Then in 2001, everything fell apart. According to reports, Bella was just eight and Connor was six at the time of their parents’ divorce. Cruise won custody, and the children went with their father. What followed is one of the most quietly devastating stories in Hollywood history.
Both Bella and Connor are now active members of Scientology, maintaining a close relationship with their father. However, they are estranged from their mother. Mike Rinder, a former Scientology executive, disclosed that the church viewed Kidman as a “negative influence” on her children, leading to the separation. Kidman has never publicly accepted that framing, but she has never denied the distance either. She told GMTV that her kids do not call her “mom,” adding: “They call me Nicole, which I hate and tell them off for it.”
The moments that really sting are the ones she missed. When Bella married British boyfriend Max Parker in a Scientology ceremony in London in September 2015, neither parent was present. Kidman was reportedly living in the same city at the time. The last time Kidman was publicly photographed with Bella and Connor was in 2007. That is nearly two decades ago.
Today, Bella, 32, lives an independent life in South London with her husband and works as an artist and fashion designer. Connor, 30, lives in Florida near the Church of Scientology’s headquarters, where he runs a barbecue business and spends much of his time deep-sea fishing.
Then, in September 2024, Kidman’s mother, Janelle, passed away. And something shifted. A source revealed that Kidman received a joint message from Bella and Connor, people she had not heard from in a very long time. The source described it as “the most heartwarming thing,” adding that Nicole believes reconciling with them would make her late mother happy. Before her death, Janelle had reportedly confided that it was a deep regret that she was unable to see Bella and Connor in person before she died, saying they were her first two grandchildren and they were once very close. Whether that message becomes something more is a story still being written.
Nicole Kidman’s Biological Children: Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret
After the divorce from Cruise, Kidman was not sure if motherhood would find her again. Then she met Keith Urban. They married in 2006, and in July 2008, Nicole gave birth to Sunday Rose, a name reportedly inspired by Australian arts patron Sunday Reed, though Kidman and Urban also simply described Sunday as their “favorite day.”
Two years later, Nicole could not get pregnant again. “We were in a place of desperately wanting another child, and this opportunity arose for us,” she said. “Fertility is such a big thing, and it’s not something I’ve ever run away from talking about.” Faith Margaret Kidman Urban was born via gestational surrogate on December 28, 2010.
The youngest of Nicole’s children, Faith, turned 15 at the end of 2025. Kidman has always been fiercely protective of both girls, keeping them away from cameras and red carpets for years. That changed in April 2024, when Sunday and Faith stepped into the limelight with their red carpet debut at the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala, where their mom was the night’s honoree. The internet took one look at Sunday Rose standing next to Nicole Kidman and immediately understood what it was seeing.
Sunday Rose Kidman Urban: The Daughter Who Is Taking Over Fashion
Nicole Kidman told her daughter she could not explore any kind of fashion work until she was 16. Twelve weeks after turning 16, Sunday Rose made her modelling debut by opening Miu Miu’s spring 2025 runway show at Paris Fashion Week in October 2024. She walked out in a white dress and grey leg warmers, and she looked like she had been doing it her entire life.
Sunday Rose went viral after the show, with audiences captivated not just by her look but by her surprising accent: a mix of Southern twang from her Tennessee upbringing with a slight Australian lilt from her parents. She followed the runway with a full Miu Miu campaign, an Omega Watches campaign, the cover of Nylon, and a feature in W Magazine. Her father, Keith Urban, told People he was “very proud” but also admitted to some concerns, saying: “Hopefully she’ll benefit by having two parents that know about a certain amount of celebrity.”
Sunday has been refreshingly self-aware about the whole thing. She told Nylon that when people her age meet her, they normally do not know anything about her life, adding: “Which is sort of wonderful because I can make a first impression based on who I am and not who my family is.” That attitude has not stopped the nepo baby critics from showing up anyway. When she walked at Calvin Klein during New York Fashion Week in February 2026, social media erupted, with critics questioning her qualifications and one user writing that she secured the job “solely because of her famous parents.” Nicole responded the way any proud mother would, sharing a clip of the walk on Instagram with the caption, “New York, baby!”
But fashion is not even Sunday’s end goal. Her dream career is actually filmmaking. She is planning to study psychology at NYU, and her creative hero is Greta Gerwig. She has already made cameos on her mother’s shows Big Little Lies and The Undoing, and she has been talking about wanting to direct since she was five years old.
As for Faith, the 14-year-old made her solo public event debut with her mom at The Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment event in December 2024, wearing a white tweed two-piece set with black detailing. She is quieter than her sister, keeping a lower profile while Sunday collects runway credits and magazine covers. For now, at least.
Nicole Kidman once told People that if she had met Keith Urban earlier in life, she could have had ten children. Urban’s response was to simply tell her to “stop the wanting mind,” reminding her it was better to be completely in love and grateful for what they had been given. What they were given is complicated and beautiful and still unfinished. Two adult children are finding their way back. Two teenagers stepping into the spotlight for the very first time. And one mother who has said, more than once, that she would give up everything for all four of them without a second thought.
