The 51-year-old actress has been at the top of acting popularity for more than a dozen years. It’s impossible not to admire the Kidman game, she knows how to fully embody any image that she got according to the script, bring bright colors into it and open it from an unexpected angle. In our article - information about the most interesting films by Nicole Kidman, successes and failures that befell the films with her participation.

Hollywood paintings with Nicole Kidman

A beautiful Australian woman began her career in Hollywood by an already fully-fledged actress.

A girl from the age of 16 starred in her homeland, gaining recognition and respect. 1989 was the beginning of the reckoning of Hollywood victories by Nicole Kidman.

Recall some of the most striking roles that are always nice to watch, admiring the simplicity and elegance of the performance.

  • In the musical “Moulin Rouge”, the actress played the light and cheerful, but at the same time deep and sensual dancer Sateen. For the filming of the film, Kidman not only learned to sing, but also took up acrobatics to independently perform tricks. One unsuccessful attempt led to an injury, after which the actress had to recover for 3 months. The well-deserved Oscar nomination and the recognition of fans smoothed out the unpleasant moments of filming.
  • Another Hollywood success - the film "Watch" with Nicole Kidman brought the actress such a long-awaited Oscar. This is a merit for a magnificent transformation - she was so imbued with the life of her heroine that she literally became her. We are talking about the writer Virginia Woolf, one of three women connected by an invisible thread of fate, in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's novel. According to the scenario, Kidman is trying to commit suicide, and the reasons for this desire are deep and confusing.The brilliant game of the actress, who changed her image beyond recognition, did not go unnoticed. In addition to the Oscars, Kidman received the Silver Bear at the Berlinale.
  • The embodiment of the role of the main character of the Dogville tape is considered one of the best in the career of the actress. But shooting in the film was not easy for Nicole - at some moments she was on the verge of nervous exhaustion. The picture tells a complex psychological story about a girl who began a new life in an unfamiliar town, and demanded tremendous dedication from the actress. Kidman went all out. The love line that the actress embodied with her partner Paul Bettany looks especially touching in the picture.
  • The film "Cold Mountain" tells the story of tenderness and devotion against the backdrop of difficult wartime, the power of the human spirit, which is hidden under fragility and vulnerability. Nicole Kidman played the young Ada Monroe, who managed with dignity to survive all the hardships and bring love and hope to her heart. The role has become another Oscar nomination.
  • A mature actress is not afraid to experiment. Evidence of this can be called participating in the HBO series "Big Little Lies." Here Kidman plays a housewife Celeste Wright, who has a difficult family life. This family, along with others, was implicated in the murder, the details of which remain a mystery. Seven episodes of the drama really liked the audience, so the company announced the filming of the new season.

Melodrama with actress

Touching, sophistication and fragility of the actress is especially manifested in paintings with a love line. Nicole Kidman boasts an impressive list of films with a melodramatic plot.

  • The picture "Days of Thunder", which is considered the first successful project by Kidman in Hollywood, became crucial not only in her career, but also in the life of the actress. The film by Tony Scott tells about a racer who was hospitalized after one of the competitions and met his fate there in the form of a handsome doctor. His role was played by Kidman. A stormy romance from the screen is transferred to real life, which resulted in the marriage of Nicole with the "racer" Tom Cruise and ten years of married life.
  • In the scandalous psychological film "Eyes Wide Shut," Stanley Kubrick Nicole again starred in a duet with her then husband. The difficult relationships of the characters in the picture - ideal at first glance and very unsatisfied, if you delve deeper - made the actors think about their family problems and look at them from a different angle. Spouses Bill and Alice Harford were able to find a way out, being on the verge of a break. But the real couple broke up shortly after the premiere.
  • The melodrama "Fur" is an unusual interpretation of the biography of the famous photographer Diana Arbus. The heroine, whose image Nicole Kidman embodied on the screen, is self-sufficient, confident and reckless. A woman embarks on a journey to the unknown, abandoning everything she had, looking for new adventures. Thanks to this act, she finds herself. The ending of the real life story is not too joyful, since Arbus committed suicide.
  • The role of the unpredictable and wayward aristocrat Kidman played in the film "Australia." In the picture, serious love passions flare up between an English lady and an employee who has traveled half the world. The actress managed to reflect in the image of the heroine a strong inner core, self-sufficiency and, at the same time, fragility and passion.
  • “Grace - Princess of Monaco” is a film about the successful actress Grace Kelly, who left the cinema for love and marriage. Difficult relationships between spouses, lack of attention and professional unfulfillment cause many misunderstandings in family life.

List of motion pictures with Nicole Kidman

Soviet viewers became acquainted with the actress thanks to the serial film Bangkok Hilton, which was released in 1989. In this picture, Kidman played her first major role.

The heroine is a girl who went in search of her father and ended up in a Thai prison because of her gullibility and recklessness. Surviving in harsh conditions on the shoulder is not for everyone, but for such a fragile and young girl - and even more so. But the heroine finds that inner core that helps her survive, no matter what.

In addition to the already mentioned paintings, in the track record of Nicole Kidman there are many films of various genres and themes. The filmography of the actress has more than 60 films.

The most popular of them:

  • “Vietnam, on demand”;
  • "Emerald City";
  • “Batman forever”;
  • Peacemaker;
  • "Stepford Wives";
  • “Translator”;
  • "Rabbit hole";
  • "Pretend my wife";
  • "Retribution";
  • “Before I fall asleep”;
  • The Adventures of Paddington;
  • “Queen of the desert”;
  • "The mystery in her eyes";
  • "Genius";
  • "A lion";
  • "Top of the lake";
  • "How to talk with girls at parties";
  • "Fatal temptation";
  • "Aquaman."

The scariest horror movies

The actress has on her track record enough films in the thriller genre. Some of them are psychological, while others are real horror films.

  • The movie "Dead Pool" by Philip Noyce was the first film in which Nicole Kidman starred for Hollywood. An acute psychological thriller is constantly kept in suspense, thanks to an intricate eerie plot and a magnificent game of the main character. The couple who lost their son went on a journey to unwind. At sea, they pick up a man who escaped from another ship. From this moment, the dangerous adventures of the heroes begin.
  • The film "Others" has earned special popularity among viewers and critics. The Gothic thriller tells the story of a strange family living in an old house far from everyone. Kidman plays the mother of two children with a strange disease - fear of daylight. And other events taking place in the family nest cannot be called normal, at least the actions of servants helping the hostess. Gloomy and terrible - this tape was nominated for a Golden Globe and received many other awards.
  • "Stocker" (or "Vicious Games" in the Russian box office) - a picture where Kidman played the role of the mother of the main character. In the accident, her husband died, and instead of him, his brother came to live in the house, setting his own rules of conduct. Nicole skillfully gets used to the role of heartbroken, a little crazy and unbalanced heroine. And the events unfolding in the house scare and attract at the same time.
  • In the sci-fi horror film Invasion, the actress starred in a pair with Daniel Craig. The picture leads into the future and talks about a strange epidemic that has hit humanity. People turned into calm and friendly - so it looks externally. And what is happening inside, trying to find out the main character, a psychiatrist. The search will lead her to terrible discoveries.
  • The painting "The Killing of the Sacred Deer" was released at the end of 2017. Kidman has played one of the deepest and most controversial roles in her career. The story of a prosperous family of doctors whose peace is collapsing due to insurmountable mistakes of the past. The film is complicated and not suitable for a wide audience of viewers. But true connoisseurs of art did not appreciate the subtle play of the actress for the masses.

Nicole Kidman starred in films of various genres. She equally successfully succeeds in comedic and serious lyrical roles, she easily transforms into dramatic heroines and gets used to a difficult psychological image. Surely she will delight her many fans with a single brilliant role.

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