Nicole Kidman is one of those brilliant Aussie ladies who made ways for themselves from Down Under through oozing outstanding performances both in movies and on television across glitz-and-glamorous Hollywood. Having served three decades now since joining the field, she was also up to making quite several films that marked her versatility as a star too. Thus, some remarkable movies and series where Nicole participated as a contributor and as an ambassador, and the merits earned thereof.
Films
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
As Satine in the musical romantic drama film, “Moulin Rouge!”, Nicole Kidman was magic. Satine was a beautiful courtesan and cabaret actress. Satine earned Nicole Kidman critical acclaim along with the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In Baz Luhrmann’s film, Kidman could be seen singing and dancing- two other facets of her acting.
- The love between Satine and Christian, both on-screen with her co-star Ewan McGregor, seemed to make the characters’ love even more believable.
- The brilliant visual sets and costumes of the whole scene for Bohemian Parisian cabaret made this film one that truly deserved the accolades.
- The soundtrack “”, with its songs performed by Kidman to critical and popular hit success, had this film nominated.
The Hours (2002)
In “The Hours,” Kidman played the draining title role of writer Virginia Woolf, along with Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. She took home the Academy Award for Best Actress due to her portrayal of how tough it was for Woolf to battle her sanity with her creations. The movie, by Stephen Daldry, connects the lives of three women across three different decades of the twentieth century. It is based on how the writing of Woolf has an impact on the life of each one of the women.
- A false nose finally perfected Kidman as the famous English writer Virginia Woolf.
- Depression, identity, and women’s roles are themes well-evocted and really worthwhile to watch in this movie.
- Kidman played the character of Woolf with so much subtlety that every nuance upon nuance was expressed by her in her role and hence wide-ranging critical acclaim across the board.
Lion (2016)
In the biographical drama “Lion,” she played Sue Brierley, the adoptive mother of a man, Saroo Brierley, who sets out to find his birth family in India. For that role, her acting fitted into the category of the Academy for Best Supporting Actress. Garth Davis’s film is a true-to-life story that narrates the emotional journey: separation by adoption and reunification by fate of a family.
- Kidman was cast as Sue Brierly in which she portrayed maternal love and strength. The film chalks out the theme of belongingness and bonding between families and a search to get it. It clicked with the audiences. The chemistry between herself and the co-star Dev Patel, who was the lead as Saroo, developed intensity in the emotive storyline of the movie and made it poignant as well.
- The Others (2001) In psychological terror “Others,” Kidman played a leading role of Grace Stewart, who lived in an old dark house together with her two photosensitive kids. This film is well known for suspicious atmosphere and plot denouements by Alejandro Amenábar. Kidman played Grace so intensive and deep, and that elevated the chilling and eerie mood of the film.
Added to this further role of Kidman as Grace Stewart, a protecting but haunted mother, are the layers. The whole movie has been filled with a sense of foreboding and mystery, with an eerie soundtrack, in atmospheric photography. “The Others” showed Kidman’s capability for excelling in each genre, right from psychological thriller to emotive drama, thus further sealing her reputation as a chameleon actress.
Rabbit Hole (2010)
In “Rabbit Hole,” Kidman played the role of Becca Corbett, who tries to make amends with her spirits in the face of the death of her little son. The John Cameron Mitchell drama remains an emotional battle of a mother with her devastating situation and the relationships she encounters across her path into the way the tragedy had occurred. She had an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for that film.
The sensitive portrayal by Kidman of the emotional journey that Becca goes through clicked well with raw painfulness and the grief of losing. Multitude of loss, process of mourning-ways in which tragedy is borne and hope is found-come into light in the picture. In “Rabbit Hole,” Nicole Kidman once and for all proved subtlety in expressing the depth of her emotions can pull one into Becca’s haunting journey.
Series
- Big Little Lies – 2017-2019 Kidman was cast as Celeste Wright, a wealthy woman in an abusive relationship, in the highly critically acclaimed HBO drama series “Big Little Lies.” The series, taken from a novel with the same name by Liane Moriarty, represents the lives of a few women living in Monterey, California, where secrets and lies begin to unravel their seemingly perfect lives. For the title character in Celeste, she won several acting awards, including the Primetime Emmy, hence proving that she was very much capable of doing challenging and multi-dimensional roles.
- As Celeste, she sent a ray of light to the amount of turmoil one goes through while in an abusive relationship. The series throws into view, in quite a catching light, the issues of friendship, motherhood, and finally, betrayal. The sizzling chemistry between Kidman and her co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, and Laura Dern brought just the right amount of intensity to the ensemble as an extravagant and dramatic tale of ladies’ power and survival unfolded.
The Undoing (2020)
Kidman starred in the psychological thriller miniseries “The Undoing” as Grace Fraser, a therapist whose life unravels after a murder and a series of revelations. A hunch by Susanne Bier from a homonymous novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz deeply digs into deceptions, privileges, and all those dark secrets beneath seeming perfection. Nicole Kidman plays the titular role of Grace with such depths of complexity; she had sent shockwaves when she plunged viewers head-first into this heady and nail-biting experience.
Kidman let it be known through her character that the disintegration of Grace’s life paralleled the unraveling truth and hidden betrayal in their psychological toll. It kept audiences glued through it all to the suspenseful atmosphere and plot, creating an addictive compelling view.
- In “The Undoing,” Kidman gave the flawed but multidimensional character width and depth, reaffirming once more the status of an actress of such great force on screen and stage.
Nine Perfect Strangers (2021)
That’s what Hulu’s “Nine Perfect Strangers” did, anchored by Kidman as Masha, a shadowy wellness guru at the helm of an ultra-exclusive retreat promising transformation and healing. Based on a novel by Liane Moriarty, the show follows this mysterious group of strangers into a wellness retreat run by Masha. During such introspective events in visitors’ lives, some assure healing and personal growth. But incomparable Kidman as Masha-her mystique was often profound in drawing viewers right into the transformative, mysterious world that was at the retreat.
Masha is an enigmatic character-oozing charisma, literally, out of each and every pore in her person.
It will take an audience in the matter of trauma, recuperation, or personal transformation only as deep as one might have desired.
Also worth noting is the phenomenal ensemble with Melissa McCarthy, Luke Evans, and Regina Hall-intrigue-budded performances infused with a degree of tension within them; this alone made the redemption and rediscovery piece truly mesmerizing and powerful in its journey into all of humanity.
Nicole Kidman is just about the most talented and one of the versatile actresses in Hollywood. She has an enviable list of movies and television series to her credit. It would appear that playing complicated characters with a lot of depth and emotion brings in critical acclaim and several awards throughout her career.
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- Does Nicole Kidman have any acting awards?
- A. Ah, yes, Nicole Kidman has won acting awards for: Golden Globe Award for “Moulin Rouge!”, Academy Award for “The Hours”, and the Primetime Emmy Award for “Big Little Lies”.
- In what did Nicole Kidman act in her supporting role in “Lion”, released in 2016?
- In 2016, Nicole Kidman starred as an adoptive mother in “Lion” and helped her son find his family in India. For this film, she received one more Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress.
