Nicole Kidman files for divorce from Keith Urban after nearly 20 years

Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman on Tuesday filed for divorce from her Grammy-winning singer husband Keith Urban after nearly 20 years of marriage, according to court records.

- STORY: CLAIRE MOSES AND NEIL VIGDOR / NYT

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, on May 8.

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In a filing in circuit court in Davidson County, Tennessee, in Nashville, where the entertainment power couple have lived, Kidman, 58, cited irreconcilable differences in her request to end the marriage.

Reports of their split started circulating on Monday, after celebrity gossip website TMZ covered the news. The couple have two daughters together.

Kidman and Urban, 57, met in January 2005, when both were being honoured at G’Day L.A., an annual gala in Los Angeles hosted by the American Australian Association.

“Itsounds a bitlike a pickup line from Crocodile Dundee,’ Urban said during a speech last year when Kidman was honoured with a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.

“Twas trying to play it cool, but inside I felt like I'd snuck into the royal ball,” he said. Kidman had an “otherworldly aura about her’; he added. “I felt a bit like I was meeting a real-life princess.”

After their first meeting, Urban almost felt too intimidated to call her.