Nicole Kidman
Acting • Born 1967-06-20
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.
Filmography
166 credits
The Interpreter
Movie • 2005
Silvia Broome
Eyes Wide Shut
Movie • 1999
Alice Harford
Batman Forever
Movie • 1995
Dr. Chase Meridian
Dogville
Movie • 2003
Grace Margaret Mulligan
To Die For
Movie • 1995
Suzanne Stone
The Hours
Movie • 2002
Virginia Woolf
Birthday Girl
Movie • 2001
Nadia / Sophia
Days of Thunder
Movie • 1990
Dr. Claire Lewicki
Nine
Movie • 2009
Claudia
Moulin Rouge!
Movie • 2001
Satine
Malice
Movie • 1993
Tracy Kennsinger
The Golden Compass
Movie • 2007
Marisa Coulter
Cold Mountain
Movie • 2003
Ada Monroe
The Others
Movie • 2001
Grace Stewart
Birth
Movie • 2004
Anna
Dead Calm
Movie • 1989
Rae Ingram
The Human Stain
Movie • 2003
Faunia Farley
The Invasion
Movie • 2007
Carol Bennell
Flirting
Movie • 1991
Nicola Radcliffe
Practical Magic
Movie • 1998
Gillian Owens
Far and Away
Movie • 1992
Shannon Christie
The Peacemaker
Movie • 1997
Dr. Julia Kelly
Australia
Movie • 2008
Lady Sarah Ashley
Bewitched
Movie • 2005
Isabel Bigelow
Billy Bathgate
Movie • 1991
Drew Preston
Rabbit Hole
Movie • 2010
Becca Corbett
Happy Feet
Movie • 2006
Norma Jean (voice)
The Stepford Wives
Movie • 2004
Joanna Eberhart
Babygirl
Movie • 2024
Romy
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
Movie • 2007
Narrator (voice)
Margot at the Wedding
Movie • 2007
Margot
My Life
Movie • 1993
Gail Jones
The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1996
Isabel Archer
The Leading Man
Movie • 1996
Academy Awards Presenter
BMX Bandits
Movie • 1983
Judy
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Movie • 2006
Diane Arbus
Emerald City
Movie • 1988
Helen McCord
Trespass
Movie • 2011
Sarah Miller
Just Go with It
Movie • 2011
Devlin Adams
Nightmaster
Movie • 1988
Amy Gabriel
The Paperboy
Movie • 2012
Charlotte Bless
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Stoker
Movie • 2013
Evelyn 'Evie' Stoker
Dogville Confessions
Movie • 2004
Self
Room to Move
Movie • 1986
Carol Trig
The Railway Man
Movie • 2013
Patti
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Movie • 2012
Martha Gellhorn
An Australian in Rome
Movie • 1987
Jill
Paddington
Movie • 2014
Millicent
Windrider
Movie • 1986
Jade
Before I Go to Sleep
Movie • 2014
Christine
The Bit Part
Movie • 1987
Mary McAllister
Grace of Monaco
Movie • 2014
Grace Kelly
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Movie • 2023
Atlanna
A Family Affair
Movie • 2024
Brooke Harwood
Holland
Movie • 2025
Nancy Vandergroot
Spellbound
Movie • 2024
Queen Ellsmere (voice)
Bush Christmas
Movie • 1983
Helen
Genius
Movie • 2016
Aline Bernstein
Queen of the Desert
Movie • 2015
Gertrude Bell
The Family Fang
Movie • 2016
Annie Fang
Hello Ladies: The Movie
Movie • 2014
Nicole Kidman (uncredited)
Strangerland
Movie • 2015
Catherine Parker
Secret in Their Eyes
Movie • 2015
Claire
Mice
Movie
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Movie • 2022
Self
Nicole Kidman: The Girl from Oz
Movie • 2006
Nicole Kidman
Lion
Movie • 2016
Sue Brierley
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Movie • 2017
Boadicea
Close Up
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Movie • 2001
Self
Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
God Grew Tired of Us
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Lagerfeld Confidential
Movie • 2007
Self
Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?
Movie • 1995
Self - Dr. Chase Meridian
The Beguiled
Movie • 2017
Miss Martha
Practical Magic 2
Movie • 2026
Gillian Owens
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Movie • 2017
Anna Murphy
Archer's Adventure
Movie • 1985
Catherine
Skin Deep
Movie • 1983
Sheena Henderson
The Upside
Movie • 2019
Yvonne Pendleton
Aquaman
Movie • 2018
Atlanna
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Movie • 2017
Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Movie • 2007
Self (uncredited)
Wills & Burke
Movie • 1985
Julia Matthews
Vietnam
Movie • 1987
Megan Goddard
Panic Room
Movie • 2002
Stephen's Girlfriend on the Phone (voice) (uncredited)
Destroyer
Movie • 2018
Erin Bell
Boy Erased
Movie • 2018
Nancy Eamons
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Movie • 1997
Self
The Goldfinch
Movie • 2019
Samantha Barbour
Rita
Movie • 2003
Self
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
Movie • 2001
Self
The Silent Wife
Movie
Jodi
Bombshell
Movie • 2019
Gretchen Carlson
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
Movie • 2010
Audience
The Prom
Movie • 2020
Angie Dickinson
Kidman on Kubrick
Movie • 1999
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis
Movie • 2019
Self
The Northman
Movie • 2022
Queen Gudrún
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Movie • 2004
Self
That Click
Movie • 2019
Self
Being the Ricardos
Movie • 2021
Lucille Ball
Matthew and Son
Movie • 1984
Bridget Elliot
Chase Through the Night
Movie • 1983
Petra
Trier, Kidman og Cannes
Movie • 2003
Self
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
Movie • 1999
Self
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
The Young People
Movie • 2026
Heart of the Festival
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Kubrick by Kubrick
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
An Impossible Conundrum
Movie • 2018
Self
The Hoster
Movie • 2026
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
TV • 2002
Self
Bangkok Hilton
TV • 1989
Katrina Stanton
Five Mile Creek
TV • 1983
Annie
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Live from Studio Five
TV • 2009
Self
The Perfect Couple
TV • 2024
Greer Garrison Winbury
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Vietnam
TV • 1987
Megan Goddard
Expats
TV • 2024
Margaret
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
El hormiguero
TV • 2006
Self
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Big Little Lies
TV • 2017
Celeste Wright
Sanremo Music Festival
TV • 1951
Roar
TV • 2022
Robin
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self - Guest
Top of the Lake
TV • 2013
Julia
Scarpetta
TV • 2026
Kay Scarpetta
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Faraway Downs
TV • 2023
Lady Sarah Ashley
The Undoing
TV • 2020
Grace Fraser
Margo's Got Money Troubles
TV • 2026
Lace
Nine Perfect Strangers
TV • 2021
Masha Dmitrichenko
PaparaGilles
TV • 2014
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
Self
Lioness
TV • 2023
Kaitlyn Meade
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2023
Self
A World of Calm
TV • 2020
Narrator
Seitenblicke
TV • 1987
self
Kulturzeit
TV • 1995
self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Conan
TV • 2010
Self
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Simone Biles Rising
TV • 2024
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self - Honoree
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Discretion
TV
Sharon
In Vogue: The 90s
TV • 2024
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self - Presenter