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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

Birthday: 1967-06-20 | Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and producer. Known for her work across various film and television productions from several genres, she has been continuously identified as one of the world's highest-paid actresses. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards. Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 films Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller film Dead Calm and the miniseries Bangkok Hilton. In 1990, she achieved international success with the action film Days of Thunder. She received greater recognition with lead roles in Far and Away (1992), Batman Forever (1995), To Die For (1995) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). In 2003, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in the drama film The Hours (2002). She received additional Academy Award nominations for her roles in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) and the dramas Rabbit Hole (2010), Lion (2016) and Being the Ricardos (2021). Kidman's television roles include Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), Big Little Lies (2017–2019), Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017), The Undoing (2020) and Nine Perfect Strangers (2021). For Big Little Lies, she received two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for Outstanding Lead Actress and the other for Outstanding Limited Series as an executive producer. Kidman has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. In 2006, she was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia. She 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 magazine 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

as    Self (archive footage)

2022
The Northman

as    Queen Gudrún

2021
Being the Ricardos

as    Lucille Ball

2021
Nine Perfect Strangers

as    Masha

2020
The Prom

as    Angie Dickinson

2020
The Undoing

as    Grace Fraser

2020
Kubrick by Kubrick

as    Self (archive footage)

2019
Big Little Lies - Season 2

as    Celeste Wright

2019
Bombshell

as    Gretchen Carlson

2019
The Goldfinch

as    Samantha Barbour

2019
The Upside

as    Yvonne Pendleton

2018
Aquaman

as    Atlanna

2018
How to Talk to Girls at Parties

as    Boadicea

2018
In6ity

as    Chris's Mother

2018
Destroyer

as    Erin Bell

2018
Boy Erased

as    Nancy Eamons

2017
The Killing of a Sacred Deer

as    Anna Murphy

2017
Big Little Lies

as    Celeste Wright

2017
The Beguiled

as    Miss Martha

2016
Genius

as    Aline Bernstein

2016
The Family Fang

as    Annie Fang

2016
Lion

as    Sue Brierley

2015
Strangerland

as    Catherine Parker

2015
Secret in Their Eyes

as    Claire

2015
Queen of the Desert

as    Gertrude Bell

2015
Paddington

as    Millicent

2014
Before I Go to Sleep

as    Christine