Films with Nicole Kidman are remembered for a long time. And the pictures with her participation bring income, so the producers love to work with the actress. Such arguments are enough to get acquainted with the work of Kidman and choose to watch one of her films.

Brief biography of the film actress

Cold beauty, porcelain figurine, phenomenal woman - this Australian-American actress is called differently. Nicole Kidman was born in 1967 in Hawaii, in the American city of Honolulu. The girl was four years old when she returned with her family to the historical homeland of her father and mother - in Australia. From childhood, she loved creativity: she studied ballet, participated in theatrical productions, and sang.

She was not even 20, when she had to leave school and find work because of a serious illness of her mother - breast cancer. The first film featuring Kidman was released in 1982. The painting "Christmas in the Forest" has become a classic that is regularly shown in Australia during the winter holidays. After the debut, Nicole regularly acted in films.

In late 1989, the actress began a close relationship with Tom Cruise. At that time, he was married and split for the sake of Kidman. The lovers immediately married, and a few years later they adopted a girl and a boy. Together, the actors lived for almost ten years, but divorced in 2001. The children stayed with their mother. After parting with Cruise, the movie star had several romance novels.

The second husband of the actress is the singer from Australia, Keith Urban. Couple together since January 2005. In 2006, they legalized their relationship, and then sealed the marriage by the birth of two common children.The actress took out the eldest girl herself, and the younger one appeared thanks to the surrogate motherhood service.

Kidman is a versatile person. She is not only a sought-after actress, but also a producer, singer, composer, model.

  1. Nicole has produced several films.
  2. From time to time plays roles in theatrical productions.
  3. Engaged in charity work. Helps street children and takes part in the fight against breast cancer.
  4. Advertised the Chanel No. 5 perfume brand and the Omega Swiss watch.
  5. She personally sang some solo parts of her on-screen heroines, performed dance numbers.

Nicole "Oscar" in the piggy bank for best performance of a female role (in 2003) and five Golden Globe awards. There are other awards: Silver Bear, Emmy, BAFTA.

A list of the best films starring Nicole Kidman

Actress Nicole Kidman manages to play equally well the roles of sophisticated positive young ladies and dangerous bitchy ladies. This is confirmed by the brightest films with her participation.

  • the series "Bangkok Hilton" (1989) is one of the actress's early creative works. The main character Katrina in the first series is a young fragile girl. She turns into a strong, purposeful personality, encounters betrayal and finds truly close people. Katrina finds the strength to resist the system and escape from the worst Thai prison. The plot of the film is constantly kept in suspense, and the acting talent Kidman helps to feel all the fears and joys of the girl.
  • thanks to the thriller Dead Calm (1989), the actress gained world fame. To learn how to manage a yacht, she hired tutors. And during the filming of the storm she stood at the helm. The picture was appreciated by both viewers and critics. This film is considered the girl’s successful start, after which she began to act actively in Hollywood;
  • in the dramatic comedy “What is worth dying for” (1995), Kidman played the young beauty Susan. Thanks to this image, she became the best actress according to the Golden Globe in 1996 and was nominated for an Oscar;
  • Nicole is an Australian miracle in Hollywood. She perfectly performed the courtesan Satine in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) and personally sang all the vocal parts of her heroine. Refined outfits and scenery, special effects, musical numbers - the picture was liked by both critics and spectators. Kidman was nominated for an Oscar in 2002 for the best female character in this film. True, she managed to get only the Golden Globe in the same nomination;
  • in the powerful drama Watch (2002), a stylish woman embodied on screen a British writer Virginia Woolf. The image was more than successful. She won an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for this work in 2003. By nature a left-hander, Kidman learned to write with her right hand to match the original. She was helped to feel her heroine by the fact that she had read all the famous letters from the writer Wolfe.

Films with Nicole Kidman in the title role are very diverse. Talent helps the actress to get used to any image and masterfully convey emotions.

Supporting films

There are more than seventy films with the participation of Nicole Kidman. She brilliantly performs not only the main, but also secondary roles.

  1. In the drama "Flirt" (1991), the actress got the role of a leader who is sympathetic to two teenagers in love and helps them.
  2. Drama thriller with a crime plot "Billy Bathgate" (1991) - a joint work by Nicole and Dustin Hoffman. Thanks to her role, Drew Kidman was first nominated for the Golden Globe as the best supporting actress. Her heroine is not only beautiful, but also a charming girl with a sense of humor.
  3. “Batman Forever” (1995) - a fantastic action movie that received mixed reviews from critics and delighted the creators with good box office. Kidman played a psychiatrist. The character of Jim Carrey comes to her appointment.
  4. In the drama Portrait of a Lady (1996), a refined beauty appears in the image of the naive girl Isabelle, who becomes a toy in the wrong hands. The film has won several prestigious awards. True, the heroine Nicole did not get in the nomination.

Romantic films with the actress

The film star has the role of a universal actress, but she rarely acts in films in the romantic genre. The most famous of them is Practical Magic (1998). In a romantic mystic with a comedy plot, another Hollywood star, S. Bullock, appeared along with the actress.

They play the role of sisters who have magical powers. In the film there is a scene of the coven of the witches, during which the girls got drunk. Bullock said that the actresses on her are really not sober because of the tequila that Kidman brought to the set.

American action movies with a movie star

Sophisticated appearance does not prevent Nicole to cope with dynamic images perfectly.

  1. The debut of the beauty in American cinema is the dramatic action movie Days of Thunder (1990). During the filming of the film, she became close with her first husband Tom Cruise.
  2. In the thriller Ready for Everything (1993), Alec Baldwin became Kidman's partner on the set. At one time, a crime story with an intricate plot became the highest grossing film of the year.
  3. The actions of the militant "Peacemaker" (1997) take place on the territory of Russia. This is a story about the transport of nuclear weapons. D. Clooney starred in the film with Kidman. There are also Russian actors, for example, Alexander Baluev. According to the plot, he is a destroyer of the peace of civilians, because of the greed of which several thousand people die.
  4. “What Hides the Lie” (2011) is a criminal drama about a married couple. They became hostages to criminals. Kidman has the role of the wife of the protagonist, Sarah.

Mystical thrillers

The plot of the mystical film "Others" (2001) keeps in constant tension. It is not immediately clear what is happening in the life of an ordinary family. Kidman coped with the role perfectly. You can experience a whole gamut of feelings, watching the actress play. Fear, joy, anger - all her emotions are transmitted to the viewer. This is the perfect horror movie with an unexpected ending.


The picture “Before I Fall Asleep” (2014) cannot be called mysticism in the literal sense of the word. But the main character Nicole Kidman - Christine - lives as if in a fictional world. Thanks to the new treatment, she gradually learns the truth about the people who have surrounded her for a long time. And this information is shocking.

Last movie with Nicole Kidman

The list of films in which the actress appears is constantly expanding.

Recent work of the actress:

  1. The painting “Lion” (2016) is an autobiographical story about a little boy who got lost and was adopted by a married couple from Australia. The actress played the role of the adoptive mother of the protagonist. Kidman was nominated for an Oscar for the image of her heroine.
  2. The premiere of the dramatic comedy television series “Big Little Lies” took place in February 2017. In addition to Kidman, R. Witherspoon, M. Strip and other famous actors played in it.
  3. Western “Fatal Temptation” (2017) received a director's prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Together with the Australian beauty K. Dunst and K. Farrell took part in it.
  4. The premiere of the crime thriller Time of Reprisal took place at the American Film Festival in Colorado in the summer of 2018. Nicole Kidman embodies on the screen the image of the woman detective Erin, who was introduced into the criminal gang.
  5. The autobiographical film “Erased Personality” (another name is “The Vanished Boy”) was released in 2018. This is the story of a Baptist son with a difficult fate. Nicole Kidman played the role of the mother of the protagonist. The drama was praised by critics.
  6. In 2017, they started filming Aquaman fiction. Kidman will play the action movie Atlanna, the mother of the protagonist. It is planned that the film will be released in December 2018.

Admirers of talent Nicole Kidman argue that with age, the actress becomes only more beautiful. And they hope that her filmography will replenish with new masterpieces.

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