Cast & creator
Nicole Kidman
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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.
Also known as: Nicole Hokulani, Nicole Mary Kidman
127
film credits
65
television credits
170
1944–2026 · acting roles
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average across scored titles
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Across film & television
Filmography (192)
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Lioness
Kaitlyn Meade
2023Lioness
Executive Producer
2023
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Conan
Self
2010
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest
2007The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
The View
Self - Guest
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
El hormiguero
Self
2006
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
Practical Magic 2
Gillian Owens
2026Practical Magic 2
Producer
2026
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Sanremo Music Festival
1951Film '72
Self
1971
Parkinson
Self
1998
Practical Magic
Gillian Owens
1998
Scarpetta
Kay Scarpetta
2026Scarpetta
Executive Producer
2026
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Self
2002
The Oscars
Self
1953The Oscars
Self - Presenter
1953
Eyes Wide Shut
Alice Harford
1999
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Atlanna
2023
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Lace
2026Margo's Got Money Troubles
Executive Producer
2026
Nine Perfect Strangers
Masha Dmitrichenko
2021Nine Perfect Strangers
Executive Producer
2021
Big Little Lies
Celeste Wright
2017Big Little Lies
Executive Producer
2017Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
American Beauty
Thanks
1999
The Northman
Queen Gudrún
2022
Babygirl
Romy
2024
Entertainment Tonight
1981Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Aquaman
Atlanna
2018
The Others
Grace Stewart
2001
Roar
Robin
2022Roar
Executive Producer
2022
Just Go with It
Devlin Adams
2011
Love & Death
Executive Producer
2023
The Golden Compass
Marisa Coulter
2007Seitenblicke
self
1987
Happy Feet
Norma Jean (voice)
2006
Far and Away
Shannon Christie
1992
Batman Forever
Dr. Chase Meridian
1995
The Undoing
Grace Fraser
2020The Undoing
Executive Producer
2020
Paddington
Millicent
2014
The Interpreter
Silvia Broome
2005
Before I Go to Sleep
Christine
2014
The Perfect Couple
Greer Garrison Winbury
2024The Perfect Couple
Executive Producer
2024
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2023
Days of Thunder
Dr. Claire Lewicki
1990
Panic Room
Stephen's Girlfriend on the Phone (voice) (uncredited)
2002
Lion
Sue Brierley
2016
Moulin Rouge!
Satine
2001
The Beguiled
Miss Martha
2017
Dogville
Grace Margaret Mulligan
2003
A Family Affair
Brooke Harwood
2024
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self - Honoree
1973
Cold Mountain
Ada Monroe
2003
Top of the Lake
Julia
2013
In Vogue: The 90s
Self
2024
Expats
Margaret
2024Expats
Executive Producer
2024
Bombshell
Gretchen Carlson
2019
The Peacemaker
Dr. Julia Kelly
1997
Faraway Downs
Lady Sarah Ashley
2023
The Goldfinch
Samantha Barbour
2019
The Invasion
Carol Bennell
2007
The Upside
Yvonne Pendleton
2019
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Anna Murphy
2017
Boy Erased
Nancy Eamons
2018
The Stepford Wives
Joanna Eberhart
2004
Queen of the Desert
Gertrude Bell
2015
The House That Jack Built
Thanks
2018
PaparaGilles
Self
2014
The Last Anniversary
Executive Producer
2025
The Prom
Angie Dickinson
2020
To Die For
Suzanne Stone
1995
Secret in Their Eyes
Claire
2015
Spellbound
Queen Ellsmere (voice)
2024
Bewitched
Isabel Bigelow
2005
Rabbit Hole
Becca Corbett
2010Rabbit Hole
Producer
2010
The Human Stain
Faunia Farley
2003
Birth
Anna
2004
Holland
Nancy Vandergroot
2025Holland
Producer
2025
Monte Carlo
Producer
2011
The Hours
Virginia Woolf
2002
Kubrick by Kubrick
Self (archive footage)
2020
Being the Ricardos
Lucille Ball
2021
The Paperboy
Charlotte Bless
2012
Birthday Girl
Nadia / Sophia
2001
Stoker
Evelyn 'Evie' Stoker
2013
Australia
Lady Sarah Ashley
2008
The Railway Man
Patti
2013
Trespass
Sarah Miller
2011
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn
2012
Grace of Monaco
Grace Kelly
2014
In the Cut
Producer
2003
The Family Fang
Annie Fang
2016The Family Fang
Producer
2016
Malice
Tracy Kennsinger
1993
Dead Calm
Rae Ingram
1989
Val
Self (archive)
2021
Five Mile Creek
Annie
1983
Bangkok Hilton
Katrina Stanton
1989
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Boadicea
2017
Nine
Claudia
2009
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
Self
2001
A World of Calm
Narrator
2020
Billy Bathgate
Drew Preston
1991
Destroyer
Erin Bell
2018
The Portrait of a Lady
Isabel Archer
1996
Margot at the Wedding
Margot
2007Discretion
Sharon
Discretion
Executive Producer
Genius
Aline Bernstein
2016
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
My Life
Gail Jones
1993
Hello Ladies: The Movie
Nicole Kidman (uncredited)
2014
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus
2006
Vietnam
Megan Goddard
1987
BMX Bandits
Judy
1983
Simone Biles Rising
Self
2024
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self (uncredited)
2007
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
2022
Flirting
Nicola Radcliffe
1991
Strangerland
Catherine Parker
2015
Celebrity Naked Ambition
Self (archive footage)
2003
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Self (archive footage)
2023
The Young People
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
Self (archive footage)
2003
Dogville Confessions
Self
2004
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis
Self
2019
Live from Studio Five
Self
2009
Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?
Self - Dr. Chase Meridian
1995
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life
Self
2017
Windrider
Jade
1986
The Leading Man
Academy Awards Presenter
1996
Tom Cruise: An Eternal Youth
Self (archive footage)
2020
I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal
Narrator (voice)
2007
Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'
Self
2005
Why I Love 'Bewitched'
Self
2005
Rita
Self
2003
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
2002
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
Self
2001
Emerald City
Helen McCord
1988
An Australian in Rome
Jill
1987
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady
Self
1997
Nightmaster
Amy Gabriel
1988
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
2012
God Grew Tired of Us
Narrator (voice)
2006
Remembering Stanley Kubrick
Self
1999Remembering Stanley Kubrick
Thanks
1999
Chase Through the Night
Petra
1983
Great Performers: Horror Show
The Possessed
2017
Lagerfeld Confidential
Self
2007
Vietnam
Megan Goddard
1987
One Night Only: Barbra Streisand and Quartet at the Village Vanguard
Audience
2010
Trier, Kidman og Cannes
Self
2003
That Click
Self
2019Mice
Mice
Producer
Shooting 'Panic Room'
Self
2004
Bush Christmas
Helen
1983
Wills & Burke
Julia Matthews
1985Matthew and Son
Bridget Elliot
1984
Archer's Adventure
Catherine
1985
Skin Deep
Sheena Henderson
1983An Impossible Conundrum
Self
2018
Nicole Kidman: The Girl from Oz
Nicole Kidman
2006
Room to Move
Carol Trig
1986
The Bit Part
Mary McAllister
1987