Nicole Kidman

At 56 years old, Nicole Kidman has this physical status:

Career

In 1983, a 16-year-old Kidman made her film debut in a remake of the Australian holiday classic Bush Christmas. By the time she appeared in the television series Five Mile Creek, she had played a supporting role. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984, causing Kidman to suspend her acting work temporarily while studying massage therapy in order to assist her mother with physical therapy. After appearing in many Australian films, such as the action comedy BMX Bandits (1983) and the romantic comedy Windrider (1986), she began to gain a following in this decade. She appeared in several Australian television series, including the 1987 miniseries Vietnam, for which she received her first Australian Film Institute Award, throughout the 1980s.

Kidman appeared in the Australian film Emerald City (1988), based on the same play, which earned her her her second Australian Film Institute Award. Rae Ingram, the wife of a naval officer whose husband is threatened by a former lover portrayed by Billy Zane, appeared later in the 1989 drama Dead Calm as Rae Ingram. The film was her breakthrough role, and it was one of the first films for which she gained international recognition. Variety wrote an article about her appearance, quoting the fact that Kidman is superb throughout the film. She gives Rae's personacity and vigor. Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert praised the leads' chemistry, saying, "Kidman and Zane do invent real, palpable terror in their scenes together." She continued to appear in the 1990 sports action film Days of Thunder as a young doctor in love with a NASCAR racer. It was considered her international breakout film and one of the year's best-grossing films.

Kidman appeared in the Australian independent film Flirting in 1991 alongside Thandiwe Newton and former classmate Naomi Watts. In this coming of age tale that received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, they portrayed high school girls. Kidman's first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress was earned the actor's first Golden Globe Award nomination this year. In its film review, the New York Times called her "a beauty with, it seems, a sense of humor." She and Cruise re-teamed for Ron Howard's Irish epic Far and Away (1992), which was a modest critic and commercial success. She appeared in the thriller Malice, opposite Alec Baldwin, and the film My Life, opposite Michael Keaton, in 1993.

In 1995, Kidman played Dr. Chase Meridian, the damsel in distress, opposite Val Kilmer as the film's title character. She appeared in Gus Van Sant's critically acclaimed dark comedy To Die For, in which she played Suzanne Stone, the murderous newscaster. "She" contributes to the role's layers of meaning, ambition, and impuls, according to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle. "Kinda's closest up-up – as she does throughout the film – Kidman shows you the estimation, the wheels turning, and the transparent attempts to charm that succeed in charming both the same." She received her first Golden Globe Award for her appearance. Julia Kelly, a White House nuclear expert, appeared in The Portrait of a Lady (1996), based on the novel of the same name, and appeared in The Peacemaker (1997), opposite George Clooney. Around the world, the new film grossed US$110 million. Sandra Bullock appeared in 1998 as two witch sisters who face a perplexing curse that prevents them from ever finding true love. Although the film debuted in the top charts during its North American opening weekend, it was not a commercial box office failure. She appeared on the stage in the same year as the David Hare's The Blue Room, which opened in London in 1991. Laurence Olivier Award-nominated Best Actress for her appearance.

Kidman reunited with then-husband Tom Cruise in 1999, their third film together and director Stanley Kubrick's final film. Due to the explicit nature of its sex scenes, it was prone to censorship scandals. Kidman returned to the screen to play a mail-order bride in the British-American drama Birthday Girl after a brief hiatus and a widely circulated divorce from Cruise. In Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge!, opposite Ewan McGregor, she played cabaret actor and courtesan Satine in 2001. Her appearance and singing received rave reviews; CNN's Paul Clinton called it her best work since To Die For; and she added, "[she] is smoldering and stunning as Satine. [...] Kidman seems to be specialized in 'ice queen' roles, but she lets herself thaw with Satine. She received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, among other awards and nominations, including her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Kidman appeared in Alejandro Amenábar's psychological horror film The Others (2001) as Grace Stewart, a mother living in the Channel Islands during World War II and who believes her house is haunted. In addition to earning her second BAFTA Award and fifth Golden Globe Award nominations, her performances earned her multiple award nominations, including a Goya Award nomination for Best Actress and fifth Golden Globe Award nominations. "Alejandro Amenábar has the patience to create a languorous, dreamy setting," Roger Ebert said, and Nicole Kidman succeeds in persuading us that she is a human being in a strange situation, not just a standard horror movie hysterical."

Kidman co-starred Meryl Steed and Julianne Moore in Stephen Daldry's The Hours, earning critical acclaim. In order to portray the author during 1920s England, the kidman wore prosthetics, which were attached to her nose, making her appear almost unrecognizable. The film was a critical success, winning many accolades and nominations, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture. "Mr. Kidman," the New York Times said in a show of unprecedented courage, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a sophisticated wiring design that broadcasts a searing, maniacal static into her brain. She received numerous prestigious and industry accolades for her performances, including her first BAFTA Award, third Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first Australian woman to receive the award. "Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the planet is in such chaos?" she said during her acceptance address. Because art is important. "You believe in what you do and want to do it well," Trump said, and it is a tradition that must be upheld." She was named as the World's Most Beautiful Person by People magazine in the same year.

Kidman appeared in three separate films in 2003 after her Oscar nomination. The first of those, as the protagonist in director Lars von Trier's Dogville, was an experimental film shot on a bare soundstage. Despite the fact that the film divided critics in the United States, Kidman was lauded for her role. "Kidman delivers the most bruising performance of her career in Dogville," Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said, "a cliche isn't stomp on." The second film was an adaptation of Philip Roth's book The Human Stain, starring Anthony Hopkins. Anthony Minghella's third film of the year was Cold Mountain, in which she starred Jude Law and Renée Zellweger, playing Ada Monroe, a Southerner who falls in love with Law's story and is alienated by the Civil War. "Kidman draws strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, luminous," Time magazine wrote of her performance. "In the firelight," her sculptureural pallor gives way to radiance. Several awards and nominations have been given to the film, most for the cast's performances, with Kidman receiving her sixth Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress.

Kidman appeared in the drama film Birth in 2004, which sparked controversy over a scene in which she and her co-star Cameron Brights share a bath before he reaches his tenth birthday. "It wasn't that I wanted to make a film in which I kiss a 10-year-old boy," she said during a press conference at the Venice International Film Festival. "I wanted to make a film in which you could experience love." She received her seventh Golden Globe nomination for her appearance. She appeared alongside Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, and Glenn Close in The Stepford Wives, a black comedy science-fiction film directed by Frank Oz in the 1975 film of the same name. She appeared in The Interpreter, portraying UN translator Silvia Broome, and appeared in the romantic comedy Bewitched, based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name. Both films were international hits, although neither film fared well in the United States. The Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple was given to her and Ferrell in the latter film.

Kidman became the Chanel No. 1 in conjunction with her success in film, and was regarded as the face of the Chanel No. 1 brand. 5 perfume brand. Rodrigo Santoro's television and print ads were shot by Moulin Rouge, who starred in a campaign of television and print ads. During the holiday seasons of 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008, Baz Luhrmann was the fragrance's ambassador. Chanel No. 6 was a three-minute commercial. After she reportedly earned US$12 million for the three-minute commercial, Kidman became the first money paid per minute to an actor. During this period, she was also listed as the 45th Most Influential Celebrity on Forbes' 2005 Celebrity 100 List. Between 2004 and 2005, she earned an estimated US$14.5 million. Kidman came in second second on People magazine's list of the top-paid actresses of 2005, second behind Julia Roberts, who received a US$16–17 million per-film price tag.

Kidman portrayed photographer Diane Arbus in the biographical film Fur, opposite Robert Downey Jr., and lent her voice to the animated film Happy Feet, which earned over US$384 million worldwide, making her highest-grossing film at the time. She appeared in The Invasion, a sequel to the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, and performed opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Margot at the Wedding, earning her a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. Marisa Coulter played the main antagonist in the fantasy-adventure film The Golden Compass, which grossed over US$370 million worldwide and was also one of her top-grossing films to date.

Kidman returned to Moulin Rouge in the following year. Baz Luhrmann, a director of Australia (2008), is shot in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. She played an Englishwoman who was overwhelmed by the continent's overwhelming. Hugh Jackman, she portrayed her. Despite mixed reviews from analysts, the film went out to be a box office hit, grossing over $211 million worldwide against a budget of $130 million. Claudia Jenssen, the muse, was represented by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Fergie, Kate Hudson, and Sophia Loren in 2009, she appeared in Rob Marshall's musical Nine, portraying Claudia Jenssen, portraying Claudia Jenssen, alongside an ensemble cast made up of Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Fergie, Kate Hudson, and Sophia Loren Along Day-Lewis, a kidman, whose screen time was brief in comparison to other actors, performed the musical number "Unusual Way" in comparison to the others. Multiple Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nominations were given to Kidman as part of the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award.

Kidman started the 2010s by producing and starring in the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole starring Aaron Eckhart. Her performance as a struggling mother dealing with her son's death has earned her critical acclaim, as well as nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. She appeared alongside Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Dennis Dugan's romantic comedy Just Go with It as a trophy wife, and later appeared in director Joel Schumacher's action-thriller Trespass, with the actors playing a married couple at hostage.

Kidman appeared in the HBO film Hemingway & Gellhorn, which portrayed the friendship between journalist couple Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in 2012. She was awarded her first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Film for her role as Gellhorn. In Lee Daniels' adaptation of the Pete Dexter novel, The Paperboy (2012), she portrayed death row protester Charlotte Bless. The film debuted at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and Kidman's performance earned her nominations for the Best Supporting Actress and the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, in addition to her second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, her tenth nomination overall. Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, an audiobook recording of her life in 2012, was also published by Audible. In Park Chan-wook's Stoker, which was released to a cheery reception and a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, she starred as an ecstatic mother. She was selected by the 2013 Cannes Film Festival's main competition jury in April 2013.

Kidman starred in Emma of Monaco, a biographical film that chronicles Charles de Gaulle's assassination of the tiny principality, enraged by Monaco's fame as a tax haven for wealthy French citizens, and Kelly's contemplative Hollywood return to actress in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie in 2014. The film, which opened at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, received mainly critical feedback. She appeared in two films with Colin Firth this year, the first being the British-Australian historical drama The Railway Man, in which she played an officer's wife. Katherine Monk of the Montreal Gazette said of Kidman's appearance, "It's a truly masterful piece of acting that defies Teplitzky's store-bought framing," the Australian Oscar winner is the first surprise: "It's eyebrows have turned into solid marble arches for the first time since their eyebrows have turned into polished marble arches." Before I Go To Sleep, her second film with Firth, depicting a car crash survivor with brain injury. She appeared in Paddington, the film's main antagonist, earlier this year.

Kidman appeared in the drama Strangerland, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and Jason Bateman-directed The Family Fang, directed by Kidman's production company Blossom Films, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. In her second film release in 2015, writer, explorer, campaigner, and archaeologist Gertrude Bell portrayed writer, traveller, parliament, and archaeologist Gertrude Bell. In the little-seen film Secret in Their Eyes, a sequel to author Eduardo Sacheri's book La pregunta de sus ojos, she starred opposite Julia Roberts and Chiwetel Ejiofor. She returned to the West End in the UK premiere of Photograph 51 at the No.l Coward Theatre after more than 15 years. Rosalind Franklin, a British scientist who was researching DNA's structure, appeared in the film from 5 September to 21 November 2015, directed by Michael Grandage. The production received acclaim from critics, particularly for Kidman, and her return to the West End was lauded as a success. She received an Evening Standard Theatre Award and her second Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress for her role.

Sue, the adoptive mother of Saroo Brierley, an Indian boy who was separated from his birth family, was portrayed in Lion, Kidman, a position she felt connected to because she herself is the mother of adopted children. She received positive feedback for her debut, in addition to her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, her fourth nomination overall, and her 11th Golden Globe Award nomination, among other things. "Kidman's adoptive mother, who loves her son with every molecule of her being," Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times thought it was a good and moving appearance as Saroo's adoptive mother, who loves her son with every molecule of her being, but comes to learn about his quest. It's as good as anything she has achieved in the last decade." Lion earned over US$140 million globally, despite being budgeted at US$12 million. She also appeared in the English version of the animated film The Guardian Brothers, giving the voice over.

Kidman returned to television in 2017 for Big Little Lies, a drama series based on Liane Moriarty's book of the same name that premiered on HBO. Reese Witherspoon, co-star Reese Witherspoon, and Jean-Marc Vallée, the show's producer, also served as executive producer. Celeste Wright, a former prosecutor and housewife who denies her husband's misconduct, was played by Alexander Skarsghrd. Matthew Jacobs of The Huffington Post expressed gratitude for her "definitive work," while Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post said "Kidman belongs in the pantheon of great actors." She received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, as well as the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series as a producer. For her role in the film, she received a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.

In Sofia Coppola's drama The Beguiled, a remake of the 1971 film of the same name that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Martha Farnsworth played Martha Farnsworth, the headmistress of an all-girls academy during the American Civil War. Both films were based on Thomas P. Cullinan's novel adaptations. Kidman was a hit in the film, and Katie Walsh of the Tribune News Service found him "particularly, unsurprisingly strong in her role as Miss Martha, the steely Miss Martha." She is under surveillance and under surveillance, unflappable. Her genteel demeanor and femininity blend well with her toughness." Two other films premiered at the festival: the science-fiction romantic comedy How to Talk to Girls at Parties, reuniting her with filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell Mitchell, and the psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, which also competed for the Palme d'Or. She appeared in Top of the Lake's China Girl and in the comedy-drama The Upside, a remake of the 2011 French comedy The Intouchables starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart, both appeared in Top of the Lake: China Girl and Kevin Hart.

Kidman appeared in two dramas in 2018—Destroyer and Boy Erased. In the former, she was a detective plagued by a case that spanned two decades. Variety and Brooke Marine of W found her "unrecognizable" in the role, and Debruge added, "she slips into a completely new skin, rearranging her insides to match the character's difficult mask." Russell Crowe and Kidman appear in Garrard Conley's Boy Erased: A Memoir, and parents in a socioeconomic way send their son (played by Lucas Hedges) to a gay conversion service. All three artists were praised for "elevating the very basic-issue content to new heights," Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair praised. Kidman starred in the DC Extended Universe superhero film Aquaman, which earned over US$1.1 billion worldwide, making it her highest-grossing film to date. She was also interviewed for a BAFTA event A Life in Pictures in 2018, where she talked about her lengthy film career.

Forbes ranked her as the fourth highest-paid actress in the country in 2019, with an annual income of $34 million. In 2019, she played supporting role in John Crowley's drama The Goldfinch, an adaptation of Donna Tartt's book of the same name starring Ansel Elgort. Owen Gleiberman lauded Kidman for her role in "elegant love" even though it was poorly received. In the drama Bombshell, a film starring former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and actress Gretchen Carlson, she co-starred with Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie. Despite less screen time than her two co-protagonists, Kidman managed to make Carlson "ever-slightly absurd," bringing a new twist to comedy that emphasizes how self-serving and futile her networked gestures are. She was given an additional Screen Actor Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her role.

In the HBO psychological thriller miniseries The Undoing, based on Jean Hanf Korelitz' book You Should Have Known, Kidman started the 2020s with Grace Fraser, a successful New York psychotherapist. Susanne Bier, the show's producer, and David E. Kelley, who previously adapted and produced Big Little Lies, served as executive producer alongside her. She has been nominated for her Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for her appearance. Meryl Steneep, James Corden, and Keegan-Michael Key appeared in her only film release of 2020, based on the Broadway musical of the same name. Jane Moriarty's book of the same name appeared on television and served as executive producer on the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers from the year before. In the biographical drama Being the Ricardos, directed by Aaron Sorkin, she portrayed actress-comedian Lucille Ball alongside Javier Bardem as Ball's husband, Desi Arnaz. Despite unfavourable reactions in reaction to her portrayal as Ball, her performance was met with critical acclaim. She received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, as well as her fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Actress and the Screen Actor Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, along with her third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Kidman appeared in a commercial for AMC Theatres named "We Make Movies Better" in September 2021, which would be shown before every film in the chain's theaters starting the month, and Kidman's involvement was subsequently extended to another year in August 2022. The commercial and Kidman's speech attracted a large audience who saw cinema goers returning to see films theatrically in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In April 2022, Kidman appeared in an episode of the anthology series Roar, based on Cecelia Ahern's 2018 short story collection, in addition to being executive producer. In the historical drama The Northman, directed by Robert Eggers, she starred alongside her Big Little Lies co-star Alexander Skarsg ld, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, and Willem Dafoe in the same month. On its debut, the film was met with widespread applause.

In the sequel to the 2018 superhero film Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Kidman will reprise the role of Queen Atlanna. She is also expected to appear and work as executive producer on four television series Expats, the Norwegian drama film Hope, the thriller miniseries Pretty Things, based on Janelle Brown's forthcoming book and the Australian play of the same name. Things I Know To Be True is planned as an ongoing series rather than a miniseries, unlike her other television shows. In the animated fantasy film Spellbound, a kidman is also supposed to play Queen Ellsmere.

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