Nicole Kidman on screen and stage

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), 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 (2024).

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), the Paramount+ spy thriller series Lioness (2023–2024), 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.

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[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	—		[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	—		[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 Upside	Yes	No	Yvonne Pendleton		[82]
	Great Performers: Horror Show	Yes	No	The Possessed	Short film	[83]
2018	Destroyer	Yes	No	Erin Bell		[84]
	Boy Erased	Yes	No	Nancy Eamons		[85]
	Aquaman	Yes	No	Queen Atlanna		[86]
2019	The Goldfinch	Yes	No	Samantha Barbour		[87]
	Bombshell	Yes	No	Gretchen Carlson		[88]
2020	The Prom	Yes	No	Angie Dickinson		[89]
2021	Being the Ricardos	Yes	No	Lucille Ball		[90]
2022	The Northman	Yes	No	Queen Gudrún		[91]
2023	Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom	Yes	No	Queen Atlanna		[92]
2024	A Family Affair	Yes	No	Brooke Harwood		[93]
	Babygirl	Yes	No	Romy Mathis		[94]
	Spellbound	Yes	No	Queen Ellsmere	Voice role	[95]
2025	Holland	Yes	Yes	Nancy Vandergroot		[96]
2026	Practical Magic 2 †	Yes	Yes	Gillian Owens		[97]

Television

Key

†	Denotes television programs that have not yet aired.

Year	Title	Credited as		Role	Notes	Ref.
		Actor	Executive producer
1984	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]
2017–2019	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]
2021–2025	Nine Perfect Strangers	Yes	Yes	Masha Dmitrichenko	16 episodes	[115]
2022	Roar	Yes	Yes	Robin	Episode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs"	[116]
2023	Love & Death	No	Yes	—		[117]
2023–2024	Lioness	Yes	Yes	Kaitlyn Meade	16 episodes	[118]
2024	Expats	Yes	Yes	Margaret Woo	6 episodes	[119]
	The Perfect Couple	Yes	Yes	Greer Garrison Winbury		[120]
2025	The Last Anniversary	No	Yes	—		[121]
TBA	Scarpetta †	Yes	Yes	Dr. Kay Scarpetta		[122]
	Margo's Got Money Troubles †	Yes	Yes	TBA		[123]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1988	Steel Magnolias	Shelby	York Theatre Athenaeum Theatre	[124][125]
1998	The Blue Room	Various characters	Donmar Warehouse James Earl Jones Theatre	[126][127]
2015	Photograph 51	Rosalind Franklin	Noël Coward Theatre	[128]

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Notes	Ref.
1983	"Bop Girl"	Pat Wilson		[129]
1983	"Where They Belong"	Moving Pictures		[130]
2001	"Somethin' Stupid"	Robbie Williams	As featured artist	[131]

Notes

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

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Nicole Kidman