"I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them."
Nicole Mary Kidman AC (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian-American actress born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
She is currently one of Hollywood's leading ladies and a frequent portrayer of 'icy-blondes' onscreen, even though she is a natural redhead and a proud Ms. Fanservice.
She had a highly publicized marriage to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001 and has two adopted children, Isabella Jane and Connor Anthony, with him. Since 2006, she has been married to the singer Keith Urban with whom she has two daughters named Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret.
Films she has starred in:
- BMX Bandits (1983) as Judy
- Dead Calm (1989) as Rae Ingram — Thriller which also starred Billy Zane and Sam Neill. One of her first breakthrough roles and one of her earliest nude scenes.
- Days of Thunder (1990) as Dr. Claire Lewicki — Her first American film role.
- Billy Bathgate (1991) as Drew Preston
- Far and Away (1992) as Shannon Christie
- Malice (1993) as Tracy Safian
- Batman Forever (1995) as Dr. Chase Meridian
- To Die For (1995) as Suzanne Stone Maretto
- The Portrait of a Lady (1996) as Isabel Archer
- The Peacemaker (1997) as Dr. Julia Kelly — Alongside George Clooney.
- Practical Magic (1998) as Gillian Owens — Alongside Sandra Bullock.
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as Alice Harford
- Moulin Rouge! (2001) as Satine
- The Others (2001) as Grace Stewart
- Birthday Girl (2001) as Nadia/Sophia
- The Hours (2002) as Virginia Woolf — Won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
- Dogville (2003) as Grace Margaret Mulligan
- Cold Mountain (2003) as Ada Monroe
- The Stepford Wives (2004) as Joanna Eberhart — Noughties remake.
- The Interpreter (2005) as Silvia Broome
- Bewitched (2005) as Isobel Bigelow/Samantha
- The Golden Compass (2007) as Mrs Coulter
- The Invasion (2007) as Dr. Carol Bennell
- Australia (2008) as Lady Sarah Ashley — (Again by Baz Luhrmann)
- Nine (2009) as Claudia Jenssen
- Rabbit Hole (2010) as Becca Corbett
- Just Go with It (2011) as Devlin Adams
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) as Martha Gellhorn — TV film
- Stoker (2013) as Evelyn Stoker
- Paddington (2014) as Millicent Clyde
- Before I Go to Sleep (2014) as Christine Lucas
- Lion (2016) as Sue Brierley
- Big Little Lies (2017-2019) as Celeste Wright — TV series
- The Beguiled (2017) as Martha Farnsworth
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) as Queen Boadicea
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) as Anna Murphy
- Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017) as Julia Edwards — TV series
- Aquaman (2018) as Queen Atlanna
- Boy Erased (2018) as Nancy Eamons
- Destroyer (2018) as Erin Bell
- The Goldfinch (2019) as Samantha Barbour
- Bombshell (2019) as Gretchen Carlson
- The Prom (2020) as Angie Dickinson
- The Undoing (2020) as Grace Fraser — TV series
- Nine Perfect Strangers (2021) as Masha Dmitrichenko — TV series
- Being the Ricardos (2021) as Lucille Ball
- The Northman (2022) as Queen Gudrun
- Spellbound (TBA)
Tropes related to Nicole Kidman's career:
- The Cameo:
- In the Robbie Williams video for his (well, their) cover of Frank Sinatra's "Something Stupid".
- In the Adam Sandler movie Just Go with It.
- Dawson Casting: Played a 40-year-old in Before I Go to Sleep (2014) at age 47.
- The age of Celeste Wright in Big Little Lies isn't stated, but it seems unlikely she's meant to be as old as Kidman's then-age (49) when it premiered in 2017.
- Dye Hard: She's naturally red-haired but is more famous for being an 'icy-blonde'. Although she says that the red hair in her early roles was also a dye job, and that her natural color is a reddish or strawberry blonde.
- Heroes Want Redheads: She's naturally a redhead, so it's a given. Though she Dyes Hard in many films.
- Irony as She Is Cast: She's an Australian playing a Briton in Australia. Even in a film that's Australian in all aspects, she's not playing an Australian.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her beauty is frequently highlighted in the roles she plays.
- Oscar Bait: Which has helped garner 4 Oscar nominations for Best Actress, including a win for 2002's The Hours.
- Playing Against Type: In contrast to her usual Defrosting Ice Queen role, she has played an evil Brainless Beauty in To Die For and a Cute Witch in the film version of Bewitched.
- Production Posse:
- Was a huge player in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! and Australia.
- With John Cameron Mitchell. Their collaboration on Rabbit Hole was a notable success, earning Kidman her third Oscar nomination (and first in eight years). They eventually came together again to work on Mitchell's next film, How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
- Kidman also starred in Billy Bathgate and The Human Stain, two films directed by Robert Benton.
- Statuesque Stunner: She plays these characters very often. Given that she stands 5'11 and is absolutely gorgeous it's a natural fit.
- Those Two Actors:
- Kidman and Lauren Bacall were co-stars in two movies that came out in consecutive years. They appeared together in Dogville and Birth.
- Jim Broadbent worked with her on Moulin Rouge! and Paddington (2014).
- Worked with her former husband Tom Cruise on three films - Days of Thunder (where they met), Far and Away, and Eyes Wide Shut. She worked with him on The Others too but he was only a producer there.
- She and Colin Firth worked together on Before I Go to Sleep, The Railway Man, and Genius.
- She and Hugh Jackman played a parental unit in Happy Feet and lovers in Australia.
- Jude Law also reunited with Kidman on Genius, as they had previously starred as lovers in Cold Mountain.
- Sydney Pollack had a few significant scenes in Eyes Wide Shut, and then directed and co-starred with Kidman in The Interpreter.
- Christopher Walken appeared as Kidman's father in The Family Fang, after having previously played off of her in The Stepford Wives.
