Nicole Kidman Spotted in Santorini, Greece

By Elena Marika Konstantinou

August 7, 2026

Nicole Kidman couldn't make it to her old primary school's 150th birthday in Sydney, so she did the next best thing and sent her love from Santorini. The Oscar winner recorded a video message on the island, and it was played at Lane Cove Public School's anniversary assembly, ABC News reported.

The celebrations wrapped up with an open day on Friday, with hundreds of former students and teachers back on the grounds on Sydney's Lower North Shore, according to ABC News. The school has been around since 1876, and Kidman was a pupil there in the 1970s, news.com.au notes.

The kids had made their pitch very public. Nine reports the school posted a Facebook video inviting her back, captioned "Dear Nicole Kidman, a little school in Lane Cove has a very big birthday coming up." Kidman had told Network 10's Angela Bishop she would try to make it, calling the invite "the sweetest thing ever," ABC News reports.

In the end, the message came from Greece. "I'm in Greece right now, but I wish I could be with you," she said in the video, as quoted by Nine. "I wanted to say congratulations on the 150th anniversary of Lane Cove Public School. Amazing. What a milestone."

Then came the part that got everyone. "I remember running around that playground. I made friends that I'm still friends with now, so it shows you how important school is," she said, per Nine, adding that she is grateful she went to such a great school.

Greek outlet iEidiseis, which picked up the clip from the local In The Cove TikTok, describes Kidman in a white dress speaking from one of Santorini's narrow lanes. Honestly, that is about as Cycladic as a video message gets.

It was a close call, too. Principal Terry McKinnon told ABC News the video "came in very late today and we were very happy to play it." Fellow alum Peter Overton, the Channel Nine presenter and 1977 school captain, did show up in person and passed along "Happy birthday from Nicole," per ABC News.

The In The Cove caption joked that parents may have floated the idea of a building with her name on it, so Lane Cove is clearly not letting her off the hook for the 175th.

Santorini wasn't her only island stop this summer. Just two days earlier she was spotted in Mykonos with Zoe Saldaña, lunching at Nammos on Psarou beach, so she is clearly doing the Cyclades properly.