Nicole Kidman on screen and stage

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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).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Kidman at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival

She made her film debut in the Australian drama Bush Christmas in 1983.[14][15] Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton (1989)[16] and had her breakthrough role was as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a murderer in the thriller Dead Calm (1989).[17][18] She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's auto-racing film Days of Thunder (1990).[19]

She gained acclaim for her roles as a devious weather forecaster in Gus Van Sant's crime dramedy To Die For (1995),[1] 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).[20]

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 Queen Atlanna 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.[21] 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.[22][23] 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

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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[a] [47][45]
2002 The Hours Yes No Virginia Woolf [43]
Panic Room Yes No Stephen's girlfriend Uncredited voice cameo [48]
2003 Dogville Yes No Grace Margaret Mulligan [49]
In the Cut No Yes N/a [50]
The Human Stain Yes No Faunia Farley [51]
Cold Mountain Yes No Ada Monroe [52]
2004 The Stepford Wives Yes No Joanna Eberhart [53]
Birth Yes No Anna [54]
No. 5 the Film Yes No Herself Short film [55]
2005 The Interpreter Yes No Silvia Broome [56]
Bewitched Yes No Isabel Bigelow / Samantha[a] [46]
2006 Fur Yes No Diane Arbus [57]
Happy Feet Yes No Norma Jean Voice role [58]
2007 The Invasion Yes No Dr. Carol Bennell [59]
Margot at the Wedding Yes No Margot [60]
The Golden Compass Yes No Marisa Coulter [61]
2008 Australia Yes No Lady Sarah Ashley [62]
2009 Nine Yes No Claudia Jenssen [63]
2010 Rabbit Hole Yes Yes Becca Corbett [64]
2011 Just Go with It Yes No Devlin Adams [65]
Trespass Yes No Sarah Miller [66]
Monte Carlo No Yes N/a [50]
2012 The Paperboy Yes No Charlotte Bless [67]
2013 Stoker Yes No Evelyn Stoker [68]
The Railway Man Yes No Patti Lomax [69]
2014 Grace of Monaco Yes No Grace Kelly [70]
Before I Go to Sleep Yes No Christine Lucas [71]
Paddington Yes No Millicent Clyde [72]
2015 Strangerland Yes No Catherine Parker [73]
Queen of the Desert Yes No Gertrude Bell [74]
The Family Fang Yes Yes Annie Fang [75]
Secret in Their Eyes Yes No Claire Sloane [76]
2016 Genius Yes No Aline Bernstein [77]
Lion Yes No Sue Brierley [78]
2017 How to Talk to Girls at Parties Yes No Queen Boadicea [79]
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Yes No Anna Murphy [80]
The Beguiled Yes No Martha Farnsworth [81]
The Guardian Brothers Yes No Luli Voice in English version [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 Gudrún [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 Mathis [95]
Spellbound Yes No Queen Ellsmere Voice role [96]
2025 Holland Yes Yes Nancy Vandergroot [97]
2026 Practical Magic 2 † Yes Yes Gillian Owens Post-production [98]
TBA The Young People † Yes No TBA Post-production [99]
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Television

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Actor Executive producer
1984 Chase Through the Night Yes No Petra 5 episodes [100]
1984 Skin Deep Yes No Sheena Henderson Television film [101]
Matthew and Son Yes No Bridget Elliot [101]
A Country Practice Yes No Simone Jenkins 2 episodes [101]
1985 Five Mile Creek Yes No Annie 12 episodes [102]
Archer Yes No Catherine Television film [103]
Winners Yes No Carol Trig Episode: "Room to Move" [104][105]
1987 An Australian in Rome Yes No Jill Television film [106]
Vietnam Yes No Megan Goddard 5 episodes [107]
1988 Nightmaster Yes No Amy Gabriel Television film [108]
1989 Bangkok Hilton Yes No Katrina Stanton 3 episodes [109]
1993 Saturday Night Live Yes No Host Episode: "Nicole Kidman / Stone Temple Pilots" [110]
2011 Sesame Street Yes No Herself Episode: "Super Maria" [111]
2012 Hemingway & Gellhorn Yes No Martha Gellhorn Television film [112]
2014 Hello Ladies: The Movie Yes No Herself [113]
2017–2019 Big Little Lies Yes Yes Celeste Wright 14 episodes [114]
2017 Top of the Lake: China Girl Yes No Julia Edwards 6 episodes [115]
2020 The Undoing Yes Yes Grace Fraser [116]
2021–2025 Nine Perfect Strangers Yes Yes Masha Dmitrichenko 16 episodes [117]
2022 Roar Yes Yes Robin Episode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs" [118]
2023 Love & Death No Yes N/a [119]
2023–present Lioness Yes Yes Kaitlyn Meade 16 episodes [120]
2023 Faraway Downs Yes No Lady Sarah Ashley 6 episodes; extended version of Australia (2008) [121]
2024 Expats Yes Yes Margaret Woo 6 episodes [122]
The Perfect Couple Yes Yes Greer Garrison Winbury [123]
2025 The Last Anniversary No Yes N/a [124]
2026–present Scarpetta Yes Yes Dr. Kay Scarpetta 8 episodes [125]
2026 Margo's Got Money Troubles † Yes Yes TBA [126]
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Stage

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1988 Steel Magnolias Shelby York Theatre
Athenaeum Theatre		 [127][128]
1998 The Blue Room Various characters Donmar Warehouse
Cort Theatre		 [129][130]
2015 Photograph 51 Rosalind Franklin Noël Coward Theatre [131]
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Music videos

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1983 "Bop Girl" Pat Wilson [132]
1983 "Where They Belong" Moving Pictures [133]
2001 "Somethin' Stupid" Robbie Williams As featured artist [134]
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Notes

  1. [a]
    Kidman plays a single character who has two different names.[45][46]

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