Nicole Kidman
Acting
Born: June 20, 1967 (age 59) · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Highest Rated
Biography
Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian and American actress and producer. Known for her work in film and television productions across many genres, she has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses since the late 1990s. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Volpi Cup, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards. She became the first Australian actor to receive the AFI Life Achievement Award honour in 2024. Kidman began her career in Australia with the 1983 films Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits. Her breakthrough came with lead roles in Dead Calm and the miniseries Bangkok Hilton (1989). She came to international prominence with a supporting role in Days of Thunder (1990), followed by leading roles in Far and Away (1992), To Die For (1995), Batman Forever (1995), Practical Magic (1998), and Eyes Wide Shut(1999). She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002). She was Oscar-nominated for her roles in Moulin Rouge! (2001), Rabbit Hole (2010), Lion (2016), and Being the Ricardos (2021). She has acted in mainstream films such as The Others (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), The Golden Compass (2007), Australia (2008), Paddington (2014), Aquaman (2018), and Bombshell (2019) as well as independent films with dark and tragic themes such as Dogville (2003), Birth (2004), Margot at the Wedding (2007), Stoker (2013), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Beguiled (2017), The Northman (2022), and Babygirl (2024). Kidman's television roles include Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017), The Undoing (2020), Nine Perfect Strangers (2021), Special Ops: Lioness (2023), Expats (2024) and The Perfect Couple (2024). For the HBO series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), she received Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Limited Series as executive producer. Kidman has been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and UNIFEM since 2006. She was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia in 2006. Kidman was married to actor Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001 and has been married to country music singer Keith Urban since 2006. In 2010, she founded the production company Blossom Films. In 2004 and 2018, Time included her on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, The New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
Known for
Aquaman
2018
American Beauty
1999
The Others
2001
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
Lion
2016
Just Go with It
2011
Batman Forever
1995
Happy Feet
2006
Panic Room
2002
The Northman
2022
Moulin Rouge!
2001
The Golden Compass
2007
Photos (23)
Movies (87)
Practical Magic 2
Gillian Owens
Before I Go to Sleep
Christine
Batman Forever
Dr. Chase Meridian
Eyes Wide Shut
Alice Harford
Practical Magic
Gillian Owens
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Atlanna
The Golden Compass
Marisa Coulter
The Northman
Queen Gudrún
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Anna Murphy
Happy Feet
Norma Jean (voice)
The Beguiled
Miss Martha
The Peacemaker
Dr. Julia Kelly
Spellbound
Queen Ellsmere (voice)
Boy Erased
Nancy Eamons
Bewitched
Isabel Bigelow
The Others
Grace Stewart
Just Go with It
Devlin Adams
Trespass
Sarah Miller
Bombshell
Gretchen Carlson
Days of Thunder
Dr. Claire Lewicki
The Invasion
Carol Bennell
Being the Ricardos
Lucille Ball
The Interpreter
Silvia Broome
The Upside
Yvonne Pendleton
Australia
Lady Sarah Ashley
A Family Affair
Brooke Harwood
Aquaman
Atlanna
The Goldfinch
Samantha Barbour
Far and Away
Shannon Christie
Paddington
Millicent
Holland
Nancy Vandergroot
Babygirl
Romy
Queen of the Desert
Gertrude Bell
Cold Mountain
Ada Monroe
Lion
Sue Brierley
The Prom
Angie Dickinson
Rabbit Hole
Becca Corbett
The Stepford Wives
Joanna Eberhart
Malice
Tracy Kennsinger
Dogville
Grace Margaret Mulligan
The Hours
Virginia Woolf
Secret in Their Eyes
Claire
Panic Room
Stephen's Girlfriend on the Phone (voice) (uncredited)
The Railway Man
Patti
The Human Stain
Faunia Farley
Moulin Rouge!
Satine
Birthday Girl
Nadia / Sophia
The Portrait of a Lady
Isabel Archer
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn
Nine
Claudia
The Paperboy
Charlotte Bless
The Family Fang
Annie Fang
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
Billy Bathgate
Drew Preston
To Die For
Suzanne Stone
Dead Calm
Rae Ingram
Margot at the Wedding
Margot
Grace of Monaco
Grace Kelly
Genius
Aline Bernstein
Birth
Anna
Stoker
Evelyn 'Evie' Stoker
BMX Bandits
Judy
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Boadicea
Destroyer
Erin Bell
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Windrider
Jade
My Life
Gail Jones
Hello Ladies: The Movie
Nicole Kidman (uncredited)
Strangerland
Catherine Parker
An Australian in Rome
Jill
Flirting
Nicola Radcliffe
Emerald City
Helen McCord
Archer's Adventure
Catherine
Room to Move
Carol Trig
Bush Christmas
Helen
Vietnam
Megan Goddard
Great Performers: Horror Show
The Possessed
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
Audience
The Leading Man
Academy Awards Presenter
God Grew Tired of Us
Narrator (voice)
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
Narrator (voice)
Chase Through the Night
Petra
Nightmaster
Amy Gabriel
The Bit Part
Mary McAllister
Wills & Burke
Julia Matthews
Nicole Kidman: The Girl from Oz
Nicole Kidman
Skin Deep
Sheena Henderson
TV Shows (18)
Lioness
Kaitlyn Meade · 24 eps
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Lace · 2 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 eps
Nine Perfect Strangers
Masha Dmitrichenko · 16 eps
Roar
Robin · 1 eps
Big Little Lies
Celeste Wright · 14 eps
Sanremo Music Festival
1 eps
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Scarpetta
Kay Scarpetta · 8 eps
Expats
Margaret · 6 eps
Top of the Lake
Julia · 6 eps
The Undoing
Grace Fraser · 6 eps
The Perfect Couple
Greer Garrison Winbury · 6 eps
Faraway Downs
Lady Sarah Ashley · 6 eps
Five Mile Creek
Annie · 39 eps
Bangkok Hilton
Katrina Stanton · 3 eps
A World of Calm
Narrator · 1 eps
Vietnam
Megan Goddard · 10 eps
Self / Appearances (56)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 3 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 4 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 3 eps
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Conan
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self - Guest · 3 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · 7 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 3 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 1 eps
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 2 eps
El hormiguero
Self · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 2 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 7 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 1 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 2 eps
The Oscars
Self · 9 eps
The Oscars
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self · 1 eps
Parkinson
Self · 1 eps
In Vogue: The 90s
Self · 6 eps
Entertainment Tonight
Self · 2 eps
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 1 eps
Val
Self (archive)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self - Honoree · 1 eps
PaparaGilles
Self · 1 eps
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
Self
Simone Biles Rising
Self · 4 eps
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self (uncredited)
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth
Self (archive footage)
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
Self (archive footage)
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Lagerfeld Confidential
Self
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Self
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
Self
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis
Self
Live from Studio Five
Self · 1 eps
Dogville Confessions
Self
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Rita
Self
Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'
Self
Why I Love 'Bewitched'
Self
Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?
Self - Dr. Chase Meridian
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Self
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
Self
That Click
Self
Trier, Kidman og Cannes
Self
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
Upcoming (1)
Producing (17)
Lioness
Executive Producer
Practical Magic 2
Producer
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Executive Producer
Nine Perfect Strangers
Executive Producer
Roar
Executive Producer
Big Little Lies
Executive Producer
Love & Death
Executive Producer
Scarpetta
Executive Producer
Expats
Executive Producer
The Undoing
Executive Producer
Holland
Producer
The Perfect Couple
Executive Producer
Rabbit Hole
Producer
The Last Anniversary
Executive Producer
Monte Carlo
Producer
The Family Fang
Producer
In the Cut
Producer
