Nicole Kidman is an Australian and American actress. She is known for her roles on stage and screen and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002). She was Oscar-nominated for playing a cabaret actress in Moulin Rouge! (2001), a grieving mother in Rabbit Hole (2010), a concerned mother in Lion (2016), and Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos (2021).
She made her film debut in the Australian drama Bush Christmas in 1983. Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton (1989) and had her breakthrough role as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a murderer in the thriller Dead Calm (1989). She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's auto-racing film Days of Thunder (1990).
She gained acclaim for her roles as a devious weather forecaster in Gus Van Sant's crime dramedy To Die For (1995), an unsatisfied wife in Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut (1999), a woman hiding from mobsters in Lars von Trier's drama Dogville (2003), a preacher's daughter in Anthony Minghella's period war drama Cold Mountain (2003), and a widow confronted with a shocking discovery in Jonathan Glazer's psychological drama Birth (2004). She also starred in the romantic western Far and Away (1992), the superhero film Batman Forever (1995), the romantic comedy Practical Magic (1998), the gothic horror film The Others (2001), the sci-fi comedy film The Stepford Wives (2004), and the adventure drama Australia, and the musical Nine (2009). She then portrayed Grace Kelly in the biopic Grace of Monaco (2014) and an evil taxidermist in the comedy Paddington (2014).
She has focused on working with auteur directors such as Park Chan-wook in Stoker (2013), Yorgos Lanthimos in The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Sofia Coppola in The Beguiled (2017), Robert Eggers in The Northman (2021), and Halina Reijn in Babygirl (2024). She has also acted in crime drama Destroyer (2018), the family drama Boy Erased (2018), the drama Bombshell (2019), the musical comedy The Prom (2020), and the romantic comedy A Family Affair (2024). She played in the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023).
On television, she played novelist Martha Gellhorn in the HBO biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), for which she received her first Emmy Award nomination. For producing and starring in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series. She has also acted in the BBC Two crime series Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017), the HBO mystery series The Undoing (2020), the Hulu drama series Nine Perfect Strangers (2021–2025), the Paramount+ spy thriller series Lioness (2023–present), the Amazon Prime Video drama series Expats (2024), and the Netflix mystery series The Perfect Couple (2024).
Film +Key Denotes films that have not yet been released. YearTitle Credited asRoleNotesActorProducer1983Bush Christmas BMX Bandits Judy1985Wills & Burke 1986Windrider Jade1987 1988Emerald City 1989Dead Calm 1990Days of Thunder 1991Flirting Billy Bathgate 1992Far and Away 1993Malice My Life 1995Batman Forever To Die For 1996 1997 1998Practical Magic 1999Eyes Wide Shut 2001Moulin Rouge! Satine Birthday Girl Nadia / Sophia2002 Panic Room Stephen's girlfriendUncredited voice cameo2003Dogville In the Cut Cold Mountain 2004 Birth AnnaNo. 5 the Film HerselfShort film2005 Bewitched / Samantha2006Fur Happy Feet Voice role The Queen Herself Archive footage https://www.widescreenings.com/queen.html2007 Margot at the Wedding Margot 2008Australia 2009Nine 2010Rabbit Hole 2011Just Go with It Trespass Monte Carlo 2012 2013Stoker 2014Grace of Monaco Before I Go to Sleep Paddington 2015Strangerland Queen of the Desert 2016Genius Lion 2017How to Talk to Girls at Parties The Guardian Brothers LuliVoice in English version Great Performers: Horror Show Short film 2018Destroyer Boy Erased Aquaman 2019 Bombshell 2020 2021Being the Ricardos 2022The Northman 2023Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom 2024A Family Affair Babygirl Spellbound Voice role2025Holland 2026Practical Magic 2 TBAThe Young People Post-production
Television +Key Denotes television programs that have not yet aired. Year Title Credited as Role Notes Actor Executive producer 1984 Chase Through the Night Petra 5 episodes 1984 Skin Deep Television film Matthew and Son 2 episodes 1985 Five Mile Creek Annie 12 episodes Archer Catherine Television film Winners Episode: "Room to Move" 1987 Jill Television film Vietnam 5 episodes 1988 Nightmaster Television film 1989 Bangkok Hilton 3 episodes 1993 Saturday Night Live Host Episode: "Nicole Kidman / Stone Temple Pilots" 2011 Sesame Street Herself Episode: "Super Maria" 2012 Hemingway & Gellhorn Television film 2014 Hello Ladies: The Movie Herself 2017–2019 Big Little Lies 14 episodes 2017 Top of the Lake: China Girl 6 episodes 2020 2021–2025 Nine Perfect Strangers 16 episodes 2022 Roar Robin Episode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs" 2023 Love & Death 2023–2026 Lioness 24 episodes 2023 Faraway Downs 6 episodes; extended version of Australia (2008) 2024 Expats 6 episodes The Perfect Couple 2025 The Last Anniversary 2026–present Scarpetta 8 episodes 2026–present Margo's Got Money Troubles Linda "Lace" Sawkins 4 episodes TBA Discretion Sharon Upcoming series
Theatre YearTitleRolePlaywrightVenue1988 Steel Magnolias Shelby Robert Harling York Theatre, Australia Athenaeum Theatre, Australia 1998 Various characters David Hare Donmar Warehouse, London Cort Theatre, Broadway 2015Photograph 51 Anna Ziegler Noël Coward Theatre, London
Music videos YearTitleArtistNotes1983Pat Wilson1983"Where They Belong"Moving Pictures2001Robbie WilliamsAs featured artist2026Troye Sivan
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