Nicole Kidman on screen and stage

American-born Australian actress and producer Nicole Kidman has appeared in numerous film and television projects, as well as in theatre productions. She made her film debut in the Australian drama Bush Christmas in 1983.^[1]^[2] Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton, for which she received the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama.^[3] Her breakthrough role was as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a murderer in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm.^[4]^[5] She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's auto-racing film Days of Thunder (1990).^[6] Her role as a homicidal weather forecaster in Gus Van Sant's crime comedy-drama To Die For garnered Kidman a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in 1996.^[7] She worked with Cruise again on Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992) and Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut in 1999.

Kidman played a courtesan in Baz Luhrmann's 2001 musical Moulin Rouge!, for which she received her second Golden Globe Award and her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.^[7]^[8] That same year, she appeared in the horror-thriller The Others, which garnered her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress.^[9] For her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002), she received the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Australian to win that award.^[10]^[11] Following her Oscar win, she starred in Lars von Trier's Dogville, the drama The Human Stain, and the epic war drama Cold Mountain. The following year, she appeared in the sci-fi comedy film The Stepford Wives (2004), and the drama Birth (2004). Four years later, she reunited with Luhrmann on the historical drama Australia. In 2010, she starred in the drama Rabbit Hole, for which she received her third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.^[12]^[13]^[14]

In 2012, Kidman played novelist Martha Gellhorn in the HBO biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.^[15] She then portrayed actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly in the biopic Grace of Monaco (2014) and starred as an evil taxidermist in the comedy Paddington (2014).^[16] For her performance in the biographical drama Lion (2016), she received her fourth Academy Award nomination, her first in the Best Supporting Actress category.^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20] 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.^[21]^[22]

In 2021, she portrayed actress-comedian Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin's biographical drama Being the Ricardos, for which she received her fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, her fifth nomination overall.^[23]

Film

Key
†	Denotes films that have not yet been released.

Year	Title	Credited as		Role	Notes	Ref.
Year	Title	Actor	Producer	Role	Notes	Ref.
1983	Bush Christmas	Yes	No	Helen Thompson		^[24]
1983	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]
1991	Billy Bathgate	Yes	No	Drew Preston		^[33]
1992	Far and Away	Yes	No	Shannon Christie		^[34]
1993	Malice	Yes	No	Tracy Safian		^[35]
1993	My Life	Yes	No	Gail Jones		^[36]
1995	Batman Forever	Yes	No	Dr. Chase Meridian		^[37]
1995	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		^[48] ^[49]
2003	Dogville	Yes	No	Grace Margaret Mulligan		^[50]
	In the Cut	No	Yes	—	Producer	^[51]
	The Human Stain	Yes	No	Faunia Farley		^[52]
	Cold Mountain	Yes	No	Ada Monroe		^[53]
2004	The Stepford Wives	Yes	No	Joanna Eberhart		^[54]
	Birth	Yes	No	Anna		^[55]
	No. 5 the Film	Yes	No	Herself	Short film	^[56]
2005	The Interpreter	Yes	No	Silvia Broome		^[57]
2005	Bewitched	Yes	No	Isabel Bigelow / Samantha^[a]		^[46]
2006	Fur	Yes	No	Diane Arbus		^[58]
2006	Happy Feet	Yes	No	Norma Jean	Voice role	^[59]
2007	The Invasion	Yes	No	Dr. Carol Bennell		^[60]
	Margot at the Wedding	Yes	No	Margot		^[61]
	The Golden Compass	Yes	No	Marisa Coulter		^[62]
2008	Australia	Yes	No	Lady Sarah Ashley		^[63]
2009	Nine	Yes	No	Claudia Jenssen		^[64]
2010	Rabbit Hole	Yes	Yes	Becca Corbett	Also producer	^[65]
2011	Just Go with It	Yes	No	Devlin Adams		^[66]
	Trespass	Yes	No	Sarah Miller		^[67]
	Monte Carlo	No	Yes	—	Producer	^[51]
2012	The Paperboy	Yes	No	Charlotte Bless		^[68]
2013	Stoker	Yes	No	Evelyn Stoker		^[69]
2013	The Railway Man	Yes	No	Patti Lomax		^[70]
2014	Grace of Monaco	Yes	No	Grace Kelly		^[71]
	Before I Go to Sleep	Yes	No	Christine Lucas		^[72]
	Paddington	Yes	No	Millicent Clyde		^[73]
2015	Strangerland	Yes	No	Catherine Parker		^[74]
	Queen of the Desert	Yes	No	Gertrude Bell		^[75]
	The Family Fang	Yes	Yes	Annie Fang	Also producer	^[76]
	Secret in Their Eyes	Yes	No	Claire Sloane		^[77]
2016	Genius	Yes	No	Aline Bernstein		^[78]
2016	Lion	Yes	No	Sue Brierley		^[79]
2017	How to Talk to Girls at Parties	Yes	No	Queen Boadicea		^[80]
	The Killing of a Sacred Deer	Yes	No	Anna Murphy		^[81]
	The Beguiled	Yes	No	Martha Farnsworth		^[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]
2019	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 Gudrun		^[92]
2023	Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom	Yes	No	Queen Atlanna		^[93]
2024	Spellbound †	Yes	No	Queen Ellsmere	Voice role; post-production	^[94]
2024	A Family Affair †	Yes	No	TBA	Post-production	^[95]
TBA	Holland, Michigan †	Yes	Yes	TBA	Also producer, Post-production	^[96]
TBA	Babygirl †	Yes	No	TBA	Post-production	^[97]

Television

Key
†	Denotes television programs that have not yet aired.

Year	Title	Credited as		Role	Notes	Ref.
Year	Title	Actor	Producer	Role	Notes	Ref.
1983	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	Television film	^[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]
1987	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	Television film	^[111]
2017–present	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	6 episodes	^[114]
2021–present	Nine Perfect Strangers	Yes	Yes	Masha Dmitrichenko	8 episodes	^[115]
2022	Roar	Yes	Yes	Robin	Episode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs"	^[116]
2023	Love & Death	No	Yes			^[117]
2023	Special Ops: Lioness	Yes	Yes	Kaitlyn Meade	8 episodes	^[118]
2024	Expats	Yes	Yes	Margaret Woo	6 episodes	^[119]
TBA	The Perfect Couple †	Yes	Yes	Greer Garrison Winbury	6 episodes	^[120]
TBA	The Last Anniversary †	Yes	Yes	TBA	6 episodes	^[121]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1988	Steel Magnolias	Shelby	York Theatre Athenaeum Theatre	^[122]^[123]
1998	The Blue Room	Various characters	Donmar Warehouse Cort Theatre	^[124]^[125]
2015	Photograph 51	Rosalind Franklin	Noël Coward Theatre	^[126]

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Notes	Ref.
1983	"Bop Girl"	Pat Wilson		^[127]
1983	"Where They Belong"	Moving Pictures		^[128]
2001	"Somethin' Stupid"	Robbie Williams	As featured artist	^[129]

Notes

References

External links

Nicole Kidman on screen and stage at IMDb

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