Nicole Kidman
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.
161 acting credits
Acting · 161
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Margo's Got Money Troubles
2026
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
El hormiguero
2006
Lioness
2023
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Wetten, dass..?
1981
The Oscars
1953
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
2023
Sanremo Music Festival
1951
Scarpetta
2026
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
Goldene Kamera
1984
Babygirl
2024
Big Little Lies
2017
Nine Perfect Strangers
2021
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
2002
Kulturzeit
1995
Just Go with It
2011
Parkinson
1998
The Others
2001
Aquaman
2018
The Perfect Couple
2024
The Undoing
2020
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
The Northman
2022
The Golden Compass
2007
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Expats
2024
Roar
2022
Spellbound
2024
Paddington
2014
Top of the Lake
2013
Happy Feet
2006
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
Dogville
2003
Batman Forever
1995
Panic Room
2002
Practical Magic
1998
The Invasion
2007
Moulin Rouge!
2001
Seitenblicke
1987
Faraway Downs
2023
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017
Lion
2016
Days of Thunder
1990
Cold Mountain
2003
In Vogue: The 90s
2024
A Family Affair
2024
The Upside
2019
Birth
2004
Stoker
2013
Bewitched
2005
The Peacemaker
1997
Holland
2025
Bombshell
2019
Before I Go to Sleep
2014
Far and Away
1992
To Die For
1995
Five Mile Creek
1983
The Interpreter
2005
A World of Calm
2020
Secret in Their Eyes
2015
Australia
2008
Malice
1993
Trespass
2011
Boy Erased
2018
Destroyer
2018
The Goldfinch
2019
The Hours
2002
Vietnam
1987
The Beguiled
2017
The Stepford Wives
2004
Simone Biles Rising
2024
Dead Calm
1989
The Prom
2020
Practical Magic 2
2026
Nine
2009
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
Bangkok Hilton
1989
The Human Stain
2003
Rabbit Hole
2010
The Paperboy
2012
PaparaGilles
2014
Genius
2016
Billy Bathgate
1991
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017
Close Up
2012
Being the Ricardos
2021
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
My Life
1993
The Leading Man
1996
BMX Bandits
1983
Birthday Girl
2001
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
2006
Discretion
—
The Railway Man
2013
Queen of the Desert
2015
Grace of Monaco
2014
Strangerland
2015
Flirting
1991
The Young People
—
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
The Family Fang
2016
Dogville Confessions
2004
Margot at the Wedding
2007
Celebrity Naked Ambition
2003
Hello Ladies: The Movie
2014
Live from Studio Five
2009
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
2017
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis
2019
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth
2020
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
2010
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
Heart of the Festival
2002
Wills & Burke
1985
God Grew Tired of Us
2006
That Click
2019
An Australian in Rome
1987
Skin Deep
1983
Vietnam
1987
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
1999
The Bit Part
1987
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
2001
Windrider
1986
Room to Move
1986
Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?
1995
Shooting 'Panic Room'
2004
Bush Christmas
1983
Mice
—
Chase Through the Night
1983
Emerald City
1988
Rita
2003
Archer's Adventure
1985
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003
Nightmaster
1988
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
2007
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
1997
The Silent Wife
—
Matthew and Son
1984
Lagerfeld Confidential
2007
Trier, Kidman og Cannes
2003
Nicole Kidman: The Girl from Oz
2006
An Impossible Conundrum
2018
Kidman on Kubrick
1999