Nicole Kidman — Movies, Bio, Popularity, Filmography & Fame Trend

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Updated 2026-06-21

She's carried blockbusters and barely-seen art films with equal force for three decades, collecting an Oscar and a shelf of awards while staying in the conversation through calculated risks and a refusal to repeat herself.

Biography

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Kidman started in Australian films in 1983, breaking through six years later with Dead Calm and Bangkok Hilton. Days of Thunder in 1990 brought her to Hollywood, where she spent the '90s bouncing between studio pictures like Batman Forever and darker work like To Die For and Eyes Wide Shut. Her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours won the Oscar in 2002. Since then she's kept one foot in prestige drama—four more Academy Award nominations, including Being the Ricardos in 2021—and the other in commercial hits like Aquaman. On television, she produced and starred in Big Little Lies, winning tw…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

saidFeb 2005

It would be far easier to go, 'Oh, I wish I loved women,' but I don't. I love the way a man thinks. I love the way a man smells. I love the way men look.

— Playboy magazine, Playboy interview, February 2005.

Nicole Kidman

said2004

It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy'. To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love.

— During a Press Conference at the Venice Film Festival 2004, on the polemic scene from her movie, "Birth"; quoted in Jamaica Gleaner

Nicole Kidman

said2004

I telephoned Lauren and thanked her for saying that. She always calls it like it is and that's a reality check I adore.

— At the Venice Film Festival 2004, after co-star Lauren Bacall had said that Kidman was not an acting legend, but rather a beginner; quoted

Nicole Kidman

said2004

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children!

— In an interview in early 2004

Nicole Kidman

saidundated

I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

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