American-born Australian actress and producer Nicole Kidman has appeared in numerous film and television projects, as well as in theatre productions. She made her film debut in the Australian drama Bush Christmas in 1983. Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton, for which she received the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama. Her breakthrough role was as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a murderer in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's auto-racing film Days of Thunder (1990). Her role as a homicidal weather forecaster in Gus Van Sant's crime comedy-drama To Die For garnered Kidman a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in 1996. She worked with Cruise again on Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992) and Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut in 1999.

Kidman played a courtesan in Baz Luhrmann's 2001 musical Moulin Rouge!, for which she received her second Golden Globe Award and her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. That same year, she appeared in the horror-thriller The Others, which garnered her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress. For her portrayal of writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours (2002), she received the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Australian to win that award. Following her Oscar win, she starred in Lars von Trier's Dogville, the drama The Human Stain, and the epic war drama Cold Mountain. The following year, she appeared in the sci-fi comedy film The Stepford Wives (2004), and the drama Birth (2004). Four years later, she reunited with Luhrmann on the historical drama Australia. In 2010, she starred in the drama Rabbit Hole, for which she received her third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

In 2012, Kidman played novelist Martha Gellhorn in the HBO biopic Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012), for which she received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She then portrayed actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly in the biopic Grace of Monaco (2014) and starred as an evil taxidermist in the comedy Paddington (2014). For her performance in the biographical drama Lion (2016), she received her fourth Academy Award nomination, her first in the Best Supporting Actress category. For producing and starring in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.

In 2021, she portrayed actress-comedian Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin's biographical drama Being the Ricardos, for which she received her fourth Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, her fifth nomination overall.

Film

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released.

Year	Title	Credited as		Role	Notes	Ref.
		Actor	Producer
1983	Bush Christmas	Yes	No	Helen Thompson
	BMX Bandits	Yes	No	Judy
1985	Wills & Burke	Yes	No	Julia Matthews
1986	Windrider	Yes	No	Jade
1987	The Bit Part	Yes	No	Mary McAllister
1988	Emerald City	Yes	No	Helen Davey
1989	Dead Calm	Yes	No	Rae Ingram
1990	Days of Thunder	Yes	No	Dr. Claire Lewicki
1991	Flirting	Yes	No	Nicola Radcliffe
	Billy Bathgate	Yes	No	Drew Preston
1992	Far and Away	Yes	No	Shannon Christie
1993	Malice	Yes	No	Tracy Safian
	My Life	Yes	No	Gail Jones
1995	Batman Forever	Yes	No	Dr. Chase Meridian
	To Die For	Yes	No	Suzanne Stone Maretto
1996	The Portrait of a Lady	Yes	No	Isabel Archer
1997	The Peacemaker	Yes	No	Dr. Julia Kelly
1998	Practical Magic	Yes	No	Gillian Owens
1999	Eyes Wide Shut	Yes	No	Alice Harford
2001	Moulin Rouge!	Yes	No	Satine
	The Others	Yes	No	Grace Stewart
	Birthday Girl	Yes	No	Nadia / Sophia
2002	The Hours	Yes	No	Virginia Woolf
2003	Dogville	Yes	No	Grace Margaret Mulligan
	In the Cut	No	Yes	—	Producer
	The Human Stain	Yes	No	Faunia Farley
	Cold Mountain	Yes	No	Ada Monroe
2004	The Stepford Wives	Yes	No	Joanna Eberhart
	Birth	Yes	No	Anna
	No. 5 the Film	Yes	No	Herself	Short film
2005	The Interpreter	Yes	No	Silvia Broome
	Bewitched	Yes	No	Isabel Bigelow / Samantha
2006	Fur	Yes	No	Diane Arbus
	Happy Feet	Yes	No	Norma Jean	Voice role
2007	The Invasion	Yes	No	Dr. Carol Bennell
	Margot at the Wedding	Yes	No	Margot
	The Golden Compass	Yes	No	Marisa Coulter
2008	Australia	Yes	No	Lady Sarah Ashley
2009	Nine	Yes	No	Claudia Jenssen
2010	Rabbit Hole	Yes	Yes	Becca Corbett	Also producer
2011	Just Go with It	Yes	No	Devlin Adams
	Trespass	Yes	No	Sarah Miller
	Monte Carlo	No	Yes	—	Producer
2012	The Paperboy	Yes	No	Charlotte Bless
2013	Stoker	Yes	No	Evelyn Stoker
	The Railway Man	Yes	No	Patti Lomax
2014	Grace of Monaco	Yes	No	Grace Kelly
	Before I Go to Sleep	Yes	No	Christine Lucas
	Paddington	Yes	No	Millicent Clyde
2015	Strangerland	Yes	No	Catherine Parker
	Queen of the Desert	Yes	No	Gertrude Bell
	The Family Fang	Yes	Yes	Annie Fang	Also producer
	Secret in Their Eyes	Yes	No	Claire Sloane
2016	Genius	Yes	No	Aline Bernstein
	Lion	Yes	No	Sue Brierley
2017	How to Talk to Girls at Parties	Yes	No	Queen Boadicea
	The Killing of a Sacred Deer	Yes	No	Anna Murphy
	The Beguiled	Yes	No	Martha Farnsworth
	The Upside	Yes	No	Yvonne Pendleton
	Great Performers: Horror Show	Yes	No	The Possessed	Short film
2018	Destroyer	Yes	No	Erin Bell
	Boy Erased	Yes	No	Nancy Eamons
	Aquaman	Yes	No	Queen Atlanna
2019	The Goldfinch	Yes	No	Samantha Barbour
	Bombshell	Yes	No	Gretchen Carlson
2020	The Prom	Yes	No	Angie Dickinson
2021	Being the Ricardos	Yes	No	Lucille Ball
2022	The Northman	Yes	No	Queen Gudrun
2023	Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom	Yes	No	Queen Atlanna
2024	A Family Affair	Yes	No	Brooke Harwood
	Spellbound †	Yes	No	Queen Ellsmere	Voice role; post-production
	Babygirl †	Yes	No	TBA	Post-production
TBA	Holland, Michigan †	Yes	Yes	TBA	Also producer, Post-production

Television

Key

†	Denotes television programs that have not yet aired.

Year	Title	Credited as		Role	Notes	Ref.
		Actor	Producer
1983	Chase Through the Night	Yes	No	Petra	5 episodes
1984	Skin Deep	Yes	No	Sheena Henderson	Television film
	Matthew and Son	Yes	No	Bridget Elliot	Television film
	A Country Practice	Yes	No	Simone Jenkins	2 episodes
1985	Five Mile Creek	Yes	No	Annie	12 episodes
	Archer	Yes	No	Catherine	Television film
	Winners	Yes	No	Carol Trig	Episode: "Room to Move"
1987	An Australian in Rome	Yes	No	Jill	Television film
	Vietnam	Yes	No	Megan Goddard	5 episodes
1988	Nightmaster	Yes	No	Amy Gabriel	Television film
1989	Bangkok Hilton	Yes	No	Katrina Stanton	3 episodes
1993	Saturday Night Live	Yes	No	Host	Episode: "Nicole Kidman / Stone Temple Pilots"
2011	Sesame Street	Yes	No	Herself	Episode: "Super Maria"
2012	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Yes	No	Martha Gellhorn	Television film
2014	Hello Ladies: The Movie	Yes	No	Herself	Television film
2017–present	Big Little Lies	Yes	Yes	Celeste Wright	14 episodes
2017	Top of the Lake: China Girl	Yes	No	Julia Edwards	6 episodes
2020	The Undoing	Yes	Yes	Grace Fraser	6 episodes
2021–present	Nine Perfect Strangers	Yes	Yes	Masha Dmitrichenko	8 episodes
2022	Roar	Yes	Yes	Robin	Episode: "The Woman Who Ate Photographs"
2023	Love & Death	No	Yes	—
2023–present	Special Ops: Lioness	Yes	Yes	Kaitlyn Meade	8 episodes
2024	Expats	Yes	Yes	Margaret Woo	6 episodes
TBA	The Perfect Couple †	Yes	Yes	Greer Garrison Winbury	6 episodes
TBA	The Last Anniversary †	Yes	Yes	TBA	6 episodes

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1988	Steel Magnolias	Shelby	York Theatre Athenaeum Theatre
1998	The Blue Room	Various characters	Donmar Warehouse Cort Theatre
2015	Photograph 51	Rosalind Franklin	Noël Coward Theatre

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Notes	Ref.
1983	"Bop Girl"	Pat Wilson
1983	"Where They Belong"	Moving Pictures
2001	"Somethin' Stupid"	Robbie Williams	As featured artist