Nicole Kidman

Acting

Born 1967-06-20 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 168 credits Academy Awards 1 Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 5 BAFTA Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 1 Sergio Vieira de Mello Citizen of the World 1 Australian National Living Treasure 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 4 nominated

2022 Best Actress Nominated Being the Ricardos
2017 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Lion
2011 Best Actress Nominated Rabbit Hole
2003 Best Actress Won The Hours
2002 Best Actress Nominated Moulin Rouge!

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

2017 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Big Little Lies

Golden Globe Awards 5 won

2021 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won Being the Ricardos
2017 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Won Big Little Lies
2002 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won The Hours
2001 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Won Moulin Rouge!
1995 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Won To Die For

BAFTA Awards 1 won

2002 Best Actress in a Leading Role Won The Hours

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

2018 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Won Big Little Lies

AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2 won

2018 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won Boy Erased
2017 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won Lion

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 1 won

— Best Actress Won

Sergio Vieira de Mello Citizen of the World 1 won

— Sergio Vieira de Mello Citizen of the World Won

Australian National Living Treasure 1 won

— Australian National Living Treasure Won

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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.