Nicole Kidman’s Daughters Make Their Red Carpet Debut at AFI Life Achievement Award Gala

Saturday’s AFI Life Achievement Award Gala marked the first ever public Kidman-Urban family outing, with the couple’s two teenage daughters making their red carpet debut.

“There’s an enormous amount of luck in my life, but there’s also the most important thing — love, big, big love,” Kidman said from the stage inside the event, where she accepted the Life Achievement Award. Gesturing to Urban and their children, she told the crowd, “Right there is the love of my life and the loves of my life. My daughters have never been anywhere publicly with me on a red carpet, tonight was their first night, so they’re here, Sunday and Faith.”

Sunday, 15, and Faith, 13, joined their mother and father alongside several of their cousins and and Kidman’s sister at the event’s family table.

“This is all because of you and I love you so much,” Kidman said, also shouting out her mother watching from home. “There’s no place like home, as they say, click click. You’re my home.”

Meryl Streep presented the achievement award to Kidman, telling the crowd about working with her friend on Big Little Lies: “That’s the time when I really came within breathing distance of the formidable gifts Nicole has, and her process and her seismic bank of emotion she’s got locked up inside there and her stamina and her drive to be an artist and her discipline.”

Onstage, Kidman returned the compliment, saying “Meryl Streep, I just love you, I’ve always loved you; I don’t know what it is but you’re a beacon of excellence and warmth and generosity but you’ve been my guiding light, so to receive this from you, you have no idea. My husband will attest, my parents will attest, it’s always been you, and no one can touch you.”

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