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.
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Credits6.4
Rating48.6M
Budget174M
RevenueActing
Primarily2026 Practical Magic 2 as Gillian Owens Producer
2025 Mice Producer
2025 The Silent Wife as Jodi Producer
2025 Holland as Nancy Vandergroot Producer
2024 Babygirl as Romy
2024 Spellbound as Queen Ellsmere (voice)
2024 A Family Affair as Brooke Harwood
2024 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special as Self (archive footage)
2023 Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom as Atlanna
2023 Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open as Self (archive footage)
2023 Lioness as Kaitlyn Meade Executive Producer
2022 Werner Herzog - Radikaler Träumer as Self
2022 The Northman as Queen Gudrún
2021 Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball
2021 Val as Self (archive footage)
2020 The Prom as Angie Dickinson
2020 Kubrick by Kubrick as Self (archive footage)
2020 Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth as Self (archive footage)
2019 That Click as Self
2019 Bombshell as Gretchen Carlson
2019 The Goldfinch as Samantha Barbour
2019 Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis as Self
2019 The Upside as Yvonne Pendleton
2018 Destroyer as Erin Bell
2018 Aquaman as Atlanna
2018 Boy Erased as Nancy Eamons
2018 The House That Jack Built Thanks
2017 Great Performers: Horror Show as The Possessed
2017 The Killing of a Sacred Deer as Anna Murphy
2017 How to Talk to Girls at Parties as Boadicea
2017 The Beguiled as Miss Martha
2017 David Stratton: A Cinematic Life as Self
2016 Lion as Sue Brierley
2016 Genius as Aline Bernstein
2016 The Family Fang as Annie Fang Producer
2015 Secret in Their Eyes as Claire
2015 Queen of the Desert as Gertrude Bell
2015 Strangerland as Catherine Parker
2014 Paddington as Millicent
2014 Hello Ladies: The Movie as Nicole Kidman (uncredited)
2014 Before I Go to Sleep as Christine
2014 Grace of Monaco as Grace Kelly
2014 Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart as Suzanne Stone Maretto (archive footage)
2013 The Railway Man as Patti
2013 Stoker as Evelyn 'Evie' Stoker
2013 Propaganda as Self (archive footage)
2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2012 The Paperboy as Charlotte Bless
2012 Hemingway & Gellhorn as Martha Gellhorn
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 Trespass as Sarah Miller
2011 Monte Carlo Producer
2011 Just Go with It as Devlin Adams
2010 Rabbit Hole as Becca Corbett Producer
2010 One Night Only - Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard as Audience
2009 Nine as Claudia
2008 Australia as Lady Sarah Ashley
2007 The Golden Compass as Marisa Coulter
2007 Margot at the Wedding as Margot
2007 Lagerfeld Confidential as Self
2007 The Invasion as Carol Bennell
2007 I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal as Narrator
2007 ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self (uncredited)
2006 God Grew Tired of Us as Narrator (voice)
2006 Happy Feet as Norma Jean (voice)
2006 Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus as Diane Arbus
2006 Nicole Kidman: The Girl from Oz as Nicole Kidman
2005 Bewitched as Isabel Bigelow
2005 The Interpreter as Silvia Broome
2004 Birth as Anna
2004 Dogville Confessions as Self
2004 The Stepford Wives as Joanna Eberhart
2004 Shooting 'Panic Room' as Self
2003 Cold Mountain as Ada Monroe
2003 The Human Stain as Faunia Farley
2003 In the Cut Producer
2003 Rita as Self
2003 Trier, Kidman og Cannes as Self
2003 Dogville as Grace Margaret Mulligan
2002 The Hours as Virginia Woolf
2002 Panic Room as Stephen's Girlfriend on the Phone (voice)
2001 Birthday Girl as Sophia, alias Nadia
2001 The Others as Grace Stewart
2001 Moulin Rouge! as Satine
2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self
2001 The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge' as Self
1999 Kidman on Kubrick
1999 American Beauty Thanks
1999 Eyes Wide Shut as Alice Harford
1999 Remembering Stanley Kubrick Thanks
1998 Practical Magic as Gillian Owens
1997 The Peacemaker as Dr. Julia Kelly
1997 Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady as Self
1996 The Leading Man as Academy Awards Presenter
1996 The Portrait of a Lady as Isabel Archer
1995 To Die For as Suzanne Stone
1995 Batman Forever as Dr. Chase Meridian
1995 Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever? as Self - Dr. Chase Meridian
1993 My Life as Gail Jones
1993 Malice as Tracy Kennsinger
1992 Far and Away as Shannon Christie
1991 Billy Bathgate as Drew Preston
1991 Flirting as Nicola Radcliffe
1990 Days of Thunder as Dr. Claire Lewicki
1989 Dead Calm as Rae Ingram
1988 Emerald City as Helen McCord
1988 Nightmaster as Amy Gabriel
1987 Room to Move as Carol Trig
1987 The Bit Part as Mary McAllister
1987 An Australian in Rome as Jill
1987 Vietnam as Megan Goddard
1986 Windrider as Jade
1985 Archer's Adventure as Catherine
1985 Wills & Burke as Julia Matthews
1984 Matthew and Son as Bridget Elliot
1983 BMX Bandits as Judy
1983 Bush Christmas as Helen
1983 Skin Deep as Sheena Henderson
1983 Chase Through the Night as Petra
8.02 Unknown 1
7.73 War 3
7.17 Documentary 25
7.17 TV Movie 10
6.80 Western 1
6.64 Drama 53
6.63 Horror 7
6.54 Music 4
6.50 Family 5
6.46 History 6
6.46 Animation 2
6.38 Adventure 15
6.37 Comedy 22
6.35 Thriller 24
6.32 Fantasy 8
6.31 Crime 11
6.27 Romance 22
6.18 Mystery 12
6.05 Action 8
5.90 Science Fiction 3