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American-born Australian actress and producer Nicole Kidman has appeared in numerous film and television projects, as well as in theatre productions. She made her film debut in the Australian drama Bush Christmas in 1983.[1][2] Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton, for which she received the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama.[3] Her breakthrough role was as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a murderer in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm.[4][5] She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's auto-racing film Days of Thunder (1990).[6] Her role as a homicidal weather forecaster in Gus Van Sant's crime comedy-drama To Die For garnered Kidman a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in 1996.[7] She worked with Cruise again on Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992) and Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut in 1999.
Kidman played a courtesan in Baz Luhrmann's 2001 musical Moulin Rouge!, for which she received her second Golden Globe Award and her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.[7][8] That same year, she appeared in the horror-thriller The Others, which garnered her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress.[9] For her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002), she received the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Australian to win that award.[10][11] Following her Oscar win, she starred in Lars von Trier's Dogville, the drama The Human Stain, and the epic war drama Cold Mountain. The following year, she appeared in the sci-fi comedy film The Stepford Wives (2004), and the drama Birth (2004). Four years later, she reunited with Luhrmann on the historical drama Australia. In 2010, she starred in the drama Rabbit Hole, for which she received her third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.[12][13][14]
In 2012, Kidman played novelist Martha Gellhorn in the HBO biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.[15] She then portrayed actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly in the biopic Grace of Monaco (2014) and starred as an evil taxidermist in the comedy Paddington (2014).[16] For her performance in the biographical drama Lion (2016), she received her fourth Academy Award nomination, her first in the Best Supporting Actress category.[17][18][19][20] 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.[21][22]
In 2021, she portrayed actress-comedian Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin's biographical drama Being the Ricardos, for which she received her fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, her fifth nomination overall.[23]
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released. |
Year | Title | Credited as | Role | Notes |
Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Actor | Producer | |||||
1983 | Bush Christmas | Yes | No | Helen Thompson | [24] | |
BMX Bandits | Yes | No | Judy | [25] | ||
1985 | Wills & Burke | Yes | No | Julia Matthews | [26] | |
1986 | Windrider | Yes | No | Jade | [27] | |
1987 | The Bit Part | Yes | No | Mary McAllister | [28] | |
1988 | Emerald City | Yes | No | Helen Davey | [29] | |
1989 | Dead Calm | Yes | No | Rae Ingram | [30] | |
1990 | Days of Thunder | Yes | No | Dr. Claire Lewicki | [31] | |
1991 | Flirting | Yes | No | Nicola Radcliffe | [32] | |
Billy Bathgate | Yes | No | Drew Preston | [33] | ||
1992 | Far and Away | Yes | No | Shannon Christie | [34] | |
1993 | Malice | Yes | No | Tracy Safian | [35] | |
My Life | Yes | No | Gail Jones | [36] | ||
1995 | Batman Forever | Yes | No | Dr. Chase Meridian | [37] | |
To Die For | Yes | No | Suzanne Stone Maretto | [38] | ||
1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | Yes | No | Isabel Archer | [39] | |
1997 | The Peacemaker | Yes | No | Dr. Julia Kelly | [40] | |
1998 | Practical Magic | Yes | No | Gillian Owens | [41] | |
1999 | Eyes Wide Shut | Yes | No | Alice Harford | [42] | |
2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Yes | No | Satine | [43] | |
The Others | Yes | No | Grace Stewart | [44] | ||
Birthday Girl | Yes | No | Nadia / Sophia[lower-alpha 1] | [47] [45] | ||
2002 | The Hours | Yes | No | Virginia Woolf | [48] [49] | |
2003 | Dogville | Yes | No | Grace Margaret Mulligan | [50] | |
In the Cut | No | Yes | — | Producer | [51] | |
The Human Stain | Yes | No | Faunia Farley | [52] | ||
Cold Mountain | Yes | No | Ada Monroe | [53] | ||
2004 | The Stepford Wives | Yes | No | Joanna Eberhart | [54] | |
Birth | Yes | No | Anna | [55] | ||
No. 5 the Film | Yes | No | Herself | Short film | [56] | |
2005 | The Interpreter | Yes | No | Silvia Broome | [57] | |
Bewitched | Yes | No | Isabel Bigelow / Samantha[lower-alpha 1] | [46] | ||
2006 | Fur | Yes | No | Diane Arbus | [58] | |
Happy Feet | Yes | No | Norma Jean | Voice role | [59] | |
2007 | The Invasion | Yes | No | Dr. Carol Bennell | [60] | |
Margot at the Wedding | Yes | No | Margot | [61] | ||
The Golden Compass | Yes | No | Marisa Coulter | [62] | ||
2008 | Australia | Yes | No | Lady Sarah Ashley | [63] | |
2009 | Nine | Yes | No | Claudia Jenssen | [64] | |
2010 | Rabbit Hole | Yes | Yes | Becca Corbett | Also producer | [65] |
2011 | Just Go with It | Yes | No | Devlin Adams | [66] | |
Trespass | Yes | No | Sarah Miller | [67] | ||
Monte Carlo | No | Yes | — | Producer | [51] | |
2012 | The Paperboy | Yes | No | Charlotte Bless | [68] | |
2013 | Stoker | Yes | No | Evelyn Stoker | [69] | |
The Railway Man | Yes | No | Patti Lomax | [70] | ||
2014 | Grace of Monaco | Yes | No | Grace Kelly | [71] | |
Before I Go to Sleep | Yes | No | Christine Lucas | [72] | ||
Paddington | Yes | No | Millicent Clyde | [73] | ||
2015 | Strangerland | Yes | No | Catherine Parker | [74] | |
Queen of the Desert | Yes | No | Gertrude Bell | [75] | ||
The Family Fang | Yes | Yes | Annie Fang | Also producer | [76] | |
Secret in Their Eyes | Yes | No | Claire Sloane | [77] | ||
2016 | Genius | Yes | No | Aline Bernstein | [78] | |
Lion | Yes | No | Sue Brierley | [79] | ||
2017 | How to Talk to Girls at Parties | Yes | No | Queen Boadicea | [80] | |
The Killing of a Sacred Deer | Yes | No | Anna Murphy | [81] | ||
The Beguiled | Yes | No | Martha Farnsworth | [82] | ||
The Upside | Yes | No | Yvonne Pendleton | [83] | ||
Great Performers: Horror Show | Yes | No | The Possessed | Short film | [84] | |
2018 | Destroyer | Yes | No | Erin Bell | [85] | |
Boy Erased | Yes | No | Nancy Eamons | [86] | ||
Aquaman | Yes | No | Queen Atlanna | [87] | ||
2019 | The Goldfinch | Yes | No | Samantha Barbour | [88] | |
Bombshell | Yes | No | Gretchen Carlson | [89] | ||
2020 | The Prom | Yes | No | Angie Dickinson | [90] | |
2021 | Being the Ricardos | Yes | No | Lucille Ball | [91] | |
2022 | The Northman | Yes | No | Queen Gudrun | [92] | |
2023 | Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | Yes | No | Queen Atlanna | [93] | |
2024 | A Family Affair | Yes | No | Brooke Harwood | [94] | |
Babygirl | Yes | No | Romy | [95] | ||
Spellbound † | Yes | No | Queen Ellsmere | Voice role; post-production | [96] | |
TBA | Holland, Michigan † | Yes | Yes | TBA | Also producer, Post-production | [97] |
† | Denotes television programs that have not yet aired. |
Year | Title | Credited as | Role | Notes | Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Actor | Executive producer | |||||
1983 | Chase Through the Night | Yes | No | Petra | 5 episodes | [98] |
1984 | Skin Deep | Yes | No | Sheena Henderson | Television film | [99] |
Matthew and Son | Yes | No | Bridget Elliot | [99] | ||
A Country Practice | Yes | No | Simone Jenkins | 2 episodes | [99] | |
1985 | Five Mile Creek | Yes | No | Annie | 12 episodes | [100] |
Archer | Yes | No | Catherine | Television film | [101] | |
Winners | Yes | No | Carol Trig | Episode: "Room to Move" | [102][103] | |
1987 | An Australian in Rome | Yes | No | Jill | Television film | [104] |
Vietnam | Yes | No | Megan Goddard | 5 episodes | [105] | |
1988 | Nightmaster | Yes | No | Amy Gabriel | Television film | [106] |
1989 | Bangkok Hilton | Yes | No | Katrina Stanton | 3 episodes | [107] |
1993 | Saturday Night Live | Yes | No | Host | Episode: "Nicole Kidman / Stone Temple Pilots" | [108] |
2011 | Sesame Street | Yes | No | Herself | Episode: "Super Maria" | [109] |
2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Yes | No | Martha Gellhorn | Television film | [110] |
2014 | Hello Ladies: The Movie | Yes | No | Herself | [111] | |
2017–present | Big Little Lies | Yes | Yes | Celeste Wright | 14 episodes | [112] |
2017 | Top of the Lake: China Girl | Yes | No | Julia Edwards | 6 episodes | [113] |
2020 | The Undoing | Yes | Yes | Grace Fraser | [114] | |
2021–present | Nine Perfect Strangers | Yes | Yes | Masha Dmitrichenko | 8 episodes | [115] |
2022 | Roar | Yes | Yes | Robin | Episode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs" | [116] |
2023 | Love & Death | No | Yes | — | [117] | |
2023–present | Special Ops: Lioness | Yes | Yes | Kaitlyn Meade | 8 episodes | [118] |
2024 | Expats | Yes | Yes | Margaret Woo | 6 episodes | [119] |
The Perfect Couple | Yes | Yes | Greer Garrison Winbury | [120] | ||
TBA | The Last Anniversary † | Yes | Yes | TBA | [121] | |
TBA | Scarpetta † | Yes | Yes | Dr. Kay Scarpetta | [122] |
Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1988 | Steel Magnolias | Shelby | York Theatre Athenaeum Theatre |
[123][124] |
1998 | The Blue Room | Various characters | Donmar Warehouse James Earl Jones Theatre |
[125][126] |
2015 | Photograph 51 | Rosalind Franklin | Noël Coward Theatre | [127] |
Year | Title | Artist | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1983 | "Bop Girl" | Pat Wilson | [128] | |
1983 | "Where They Belong" | Moving Pictures | [129] | |
2001 | "Somethin' Stupid" | Robbie Williams | As featured artist | [130] |
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