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A 150-foot, champagne-colored superyacht reportedly once owned — and apparently abandoned — by Nicole Kidman just hit the market. Take a look inside.

• A superyacht reportedly once owned by actress Nicole Kidman has hit the market for an undisclosed price, according to yacht management firm Imperial .
• The superyacht is named Hokulani, the same Hawaiian name Kidman told InStyle Magazine in 2014 that her parents gave her at birth.
• The boat features a distinctive champagne-colored hull and sleeps 12 guests and seven crew members, according to Imperial.
• Kidman had an estimated net worth of $338 million Australian (or $259 million US) in 2017, according to the Australian Financial Review's 2017 Rich List , which ranked her the 197th richest Australian that year.
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A superyacht reportedly once owned by actress Nicole Kidman is up for sale, according to yacht management firm Imperial .

The superyacht's price is being kept under wraps, however. Potential buyers will only see the price tag after submitting an application to Imperial.

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The yacht shares the Hawaiian name Kidman told InStyle Magazine that her parents gave her at birth: "Hokulani." (Kidman was actually born on the Hawaiian island of Oahu but is Australian by nationality.) The actress (best known for her roles in the television drama "Big Little Lies" and the films "Moulin Rouge!" and "The Hours") is next set to star as news anchor Gretchen Carlson in "Bombshell," a film about Fox News, alongside Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Insider previously reported.

Kidman's last estimated net worth was $338 million Australian (or $259 million US), according to the Australian Financial Review's 2017 Rich List ; she was ranked the 197th richest Australian that year. While Hokulani's ownership hasn't been confirmed by either Kidman or Imperial, the Independent reported in 2008 that Kidman owned and subsequently abandoned the yacht (which was built by Palmer Johnson, designed by Nuvolari Lenard, and launched in 2007, according to Imperial ) in a Sydney marina when she moved out of a nearby apartment complex.

Keep reading to learn more about the superyacht and for a closer look at the distinctive watercraft.

Hokulani is best known for its iconic champagne color.

Source : Imperial Yachts

Despite being more than a decade old, Imperial says the 45.7-meter (or about 150-foot) yacht is still in "perfect condition," thanks to its seven-person crew.

Even the bridge looks luxurious.

Hokulani has five guest staterooms that can sleep up to 10 guests total. Each stateroom has its own ensuite bathroom.

There are two VIP cabins with double beds ...

... and a grand master suite with a king-sized bed, study area, and walk-in closet.

It also has a private, fold-out balcony.

Hokulani even features a hydraulically-powered tender garage to store jet skis that keep guests entertained while the yacht is anchored.

There is also plenty of room for everyone to hang out and relax on the sun deck ...

... or in the main salon during inclement weather.

The superyacht's other amenities include a sunbathing area and cinema room.

Despite its luxurious amenities, Kidman reportedly "abandoned" the superyacht in a Sydney marina after relocating to Tennessee with husband Keith Urban.

"A spokesman for Kidman told the Sydney Morning Herald that the boat had been left at the marina because she had contemplated buying another apartment in the same block, which did not happen," The Independent reported in 2008.

Source : The Independent

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Nicole Kidman's multimillion pound Sunseeker yacht complete with luxurious features

It is an ideal yacht for socialising

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Home to the UK's most iconic coasts, Dorset is often able to host a whole range of world-class fleets across our many ports. Other vessels may no stop at our ports, but could roam the area at any given time to explore Dorset's coastline and take in the views.

From huge 'rockstar' cruise ships offering spectacular entertainment to luxury superyachts , Dorset has seen its fair share of impressive vessels. However, there is one stunning yacht that is owned by a very famous individual.

The Sunseeker Manhattan 74, or 74 Sport Yacht, is, as of 2018, owned by Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman, which she has called Hokulani, according to Motorboat and Yachting . The yacht's name means 'heavenly star' and is said to be a nickname given to the 55-year-old actress by her parents to pay homage to her birthplace of Honolulu, Hawaii.

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The star is perhaps most known for her roles in hit films including The Hours and Moulin Rouge, though it might be less known that she owns this impressive superyacht. The Manhattan 74 is described as "undeniably a Sunseeker" boasting luxurious interior designs and interesting features.

The yacht is ideal for socialising with guests. The vessel is split over three levels, including an upper level vantage point to take in the sea views. Inside, there is the owner's room, five guest suites, the captain's cabin and even has room to sleep up to eight crew members.

The vessel's design is sleek and modern and measures in at around 22.82m. There is enough space for an entertainment room as well as a few water toys.

It is also boasted as having high-tech features, including hydraulic drop-away cockpit doors that opens up the interior living space to invite the outside. There are comfortable seating and sunpads on both sides of the vessel to ensure a relaxed space for guests to chill out and soak in some rays.

Motorboat and Yachting reportedly said that the yacht is expected to cost in the region on £2.1 million. It seems the Nicole Kidman-owned superyacht is sure to turn heads wherever she visits.

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It is one of Sydney's most prestigious apartment buildings, right on the harbour and home to a clutch of local celebrities, including, until recently, Nicole Kidman. Problem is, when the Hollywood star sold up, she left her A$4.5m (£2.1m) yacht behind – and her former neighbours are furious about it.

Strict bylaws regulate life at Pier 6/7 in Walsh Bay, a rejuvenated former wharf area containing some of the city's most expensive homes. The rules specify, among other things, where washing may be hung, and whether gulls may be fed. One apartment owner recently fell foul of the block's governing committee for installing pot plants on his balcony. The bylaws also state that only residents can park their yachts in the adjacent marina. So why is Kidman's large boat, Hokulani, still moored there, nearly a year after she moved out? Favouritism, mutter disgruntled locals, who accuse the committee of turning a blind eye to its presence.

Sydney-born Kidman has long been the city's favourite daughter but her reputation has taken a battering in recent weeks. Her latest film, Australia, in which she plays an English aristocrat who inherits an outback cattle ranch, has been panned around the world. Last week, she was condemned by Aboriginal leaders for playing the didgeridoo – an instrument generally considered to be reserved for men – on a German chat show. Now comes the Melrose Place-style drama on her home turf.

The star, who still owns a waterside mansion in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs, is apparently well aware that Hokulani is breaching regulations. A spokesman for Kidman told the Sydney Morning Herald that the boat had been left at the marina because she had contemplated buying another apartment in the same block, which did not happen.

The spokesman claimed the boat would be moved next week, and denied that Kidman was "trying to take advantage of the situation". "The [governing committee] would never do anything just because it's her," he said.

An adviser to the owners' corporation, Wally Paterson, agreed the yacht's continuing presence was a breach of bylaws but insisted he was "absolutely adamant everyone gets treated equally no matter who or what they are".

Pier 6/7 is home to, among others, Ryan Stokes, the son of the Australian media magnate Kerry Stokes, Paul Cave, who founded the hugely popular BridgeClimb over Sydney Harbour, and a glamorous former television news anchor, Mary Kostakidis. Kidman's fellow Hollywood star, Cate Blanchett, is co-artistic director (with her husband, Andrew Upton) of the nearby Sydney Theatre Company in Walsh Bay.

Ms Kidman, who recently had a baby daughter, Sunday Rose, with her husband, the country singer Keith Urban, lives mainly in Nashville. She jets into Sydney frequently to see family, and usually spends Christmas there but said recently that she would be staying in Nashville because she was upset by negative reviews of her role in Australia, directed by Baz Luhrmann. One friend was quoted in the Australian media as saying: "She's been so upset. It really has devastated her."

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It is one of Sydney's most prestigious apartment buildings, right on the harbour and home to a clutch of local celebrities, including, until recently, Nicole Kidman. Problem is, when the Hollywood star sold up, she left her $4.5m (NZ$5.3m) yacht behind - and her former neighbours are furious about it. Strict bylaws regulate life at Pier 6/7 in Walsh Bay, a rejuvenated former wharf area containing some of the city's most expensive homes. The rules specify, among other things, where washing may be hung, and whether gulls may be fed. One apartment owner recently fell foul of the block's governing committee for installing pot plants on his balcony. The bylaws also state that only residents can park their yachts in the adjacent marina. So why is Kidman's large boat, Hokulani, still moored there, nearly a year after she moved out? Favouritism, mutter disgruntled locals, who accuse the committee of turning a blind eye to its presence. Sydney-born Kidman has long been the city's favourite daughter but her reputation has taken a battering in recent weeks. Her latest film, Australia , in which she plays an English aristocrat who inherits an outback cattle ranch, has been panned around the world. Last week, she was condemned by Aboriginal leaders for playing the didgeridoo n an instrument generally considered to be reserved for men n on a German chat show. Now comes the Melrose Place-style drama on her home turf. The star, who still owns a waterside mansion in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs, is apparently well aware that Hokulani is breaching regulations. A spokesman for Kidman told the Sydney Morning Herald that the boat had been left at the marina because she had contemplated buying another apartment in the same block, which did not happen. The spokesman claimed the boat would be moved next week, and denied that Kidman was "trying to take advantage of the situation". "The [governing committee] would never do anything just because it's her," he said. An adviser to the owners' corporation, Wally Paterson, agreed the yacht's continuing presence was a breach of bylaws but insisted he was "absolutely adamant everyone gets treated equally no matter who or what they are". Pier 6/7 is home to, among others, Ryan Stokes, the son of the Australian media magnate Kerry Stokes, Paul Cave, who founded the hugely popular BridgeClimb over Sydney Harbour, and a glamorous former television news anchor, Mary Kostakidis. Kidman's fellow Hollywood star, Cate Blanchett, is co-artistic director (with her husband, Andrew Upton) of the nearby Sydney Theatre Company in Walsh Bay. Ms Kidman, who recently had a baby daughter, Sunday Rose, with her husband, the country singer Keith Urban, lives mainly in Nashville. She jets into Sydney frequently to see family, and usually spends Christmas there but said recently that she would be staying in Nashville because she was upset by negative reviews of her role in Australia , directed by Baz Luhrmann. One friend was quoted in the Australian media as saying: "She's been so upset. It really has devastated her." - THE INDEPENDENT

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Nicole Kidman is angering former neighbors in an apartment block in Sydney with her abandoned yacht Hokulani. Kidman, who spends large amounts of time now in Nashville with husband Keith Urban and baby Sunday, used to have an apartment in a waterfront complex called Pier 6/7, before selling it last year. Despite moving herself, she left her boat.

Now, the Independent reports , she is breaking some bylaws with the abandoned ship:

The bylaws also state that only residents can park their yachts in the adjacent marina. So why is Kidman's large boat, Hokulani, still moored there, nearly a year after she moved out? Favouritism, mutter disgruntled locals, who accuse the committee of turning a blind eye to its presence... The star, who still owns a waterside mansion in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs, is apparently well aware that Hokulani is breaching regulations. A spokesman for Kidman told the Sydney Morning Herald that the boat had been left at the marina because she had contemplated buying another apartment in the same block, which did not happen. The spokesman claimed the boat would be moved next week, and denied that Kidman was "trying to take advantage of the situation". "The [governing committee] would never do anything just because it's her," he said. An adviser to the owners' corporation, Wally Paterson, agreed the yacht's continuing presence was a breach of bylaws but insisted he was "absolutely adamant everyone gets treated equally no matter who or what they are".

She bought the Sunseeker 74 back in 2004 for $4.5 M. She has not used it lately, however. She was photographed in the summer of 2007 on a day cruise with family and friends.

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Hokulani is actually actress Nicole Kidman’s name in Hawaiian. She and her country-superstar husband used it to name their 3-story super-yacht. It comes with a jacuzzi, televisions, water skis, wakeboards, snorkeling equipment, and a glass atrium roof. Ten guests and eight crew members can sleep inside the belly of this 150-foot beast.

Estimates point its value at around $4.5 million. That doesn’t really matter to a couple that’s worth $195 million. This sea vessel was designed for elegance, with wood furnishings, large windows, and a champagne-colored exterior. I’m not sure about the color but sign me up for water skiing.

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In an almost two-decade-long career, Shaq has already achieved more than he ever imagined growing up. So, now he can afford to take a break whenever he chooses, and what better way to do that than to sail out in the open sea, in style.

Eric Clapton Rocks Onboard his Va Bene

Eric Clapton, who was the subject of many graffiti declaring “Clapton is God,” is one the greatest guitarist of all time, as well as one of the most recognizable names in rock and roll. Clapton is also known for his 156-foot super-yacht, which is worth around 9 million pounds.

The Va Bene has enough room for 12 guests and 12 crew members. There’s a barbecue grill, two dining centers (one formal and one informal), and a karaoke lounge. Clapton put the yacht up for sale in 2016, but don’t worry. He’s got another one.

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Built by Lürssen Yachts in 2012, the Topaz is considered one of the largest in the world at 483 feet long. There's a gym, a conference room, a water sports center to chill with supermodels, and two helipads, which is better than what Jack (Leo) got in "Titanic".

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• A superyacht reportedly once owned by actress Nicole Kidman has hit the market for an undisclosed price, according to yacht management firm Imperial .
• The superyacht is named Hokulani, the same Hawaiian name Kidman told InStyle Magazine in 2014 that her parents gave her at birth.
• The boat features a distinctive champagne-colored hull and sleeps 12 guests and seven crew members, according to Imperial.
• Kidman had an estimated net worth of $338 million Australian (or $259 million US) in 2017, according to the Australian Financial Review's 2017 Rich List , which ranked her the 197th richest Australian that year.
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A superyacht reportedly once owned by actress Nicole Kidman is up for sale, according to yacht management firm Imperial .

The superyacht's price is being kept under wraps, however. Potential buyers will only see the price tag after submitting an application to Imperial.

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The yacht shares the Hawaiian name Kidman told InStyle Magazine that her parents gave her at birth: "Hokulani." (Kidman was actually born on the Hawaiian island of Oahu but is Australian by nationality.) The actress (best known for her roles in the television drama "Big Little Lies" and the films "Moulin Rouge!" and "The Hours") is next set to star as news anchor Gretchen Carlson in "Bombshell," a film about Fox News, alongside Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Insider previously reported.

Kidman's last estimated net worth was $338 million Australian (or $259 million US), according to the Australian Financial Review's 2017 Rich List ; she was ranked the 197th richest Australian that year. While Hokulani's ownership hasn't been confirmed by either Kidman or Imperial, the Independent reported in 2008 that Kidman owned and subsequently abandoned the yacht (which was built by Palmer Johnson, designed by Nuvolari Lenard, and launched in 2007, according to Imperial ) in a Sydney marina when she moved out of a nearby apartment complex.

Keep reading to learn more about the superyacht and for a closer look at the distinctive watercraft.

Hokulani is best known for its iconic champagne color.

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Despite being more than a decade old, Imperial says the 45.7-meter (or about 150-foot) yacht is still in "perfect condition," thanks to its seven-person crew.

Even the bridge looks luxurious.

Hokulani has five guest staterooms that can sleep up to 10 guests total. Each stateroom has its own ensuite bathroom.

There are two VIP cabins with double beds ...

... and a grand master suite with a king-sized bed, study area, and walk-in closet.

It also has a private, fold-out balcony.

Hokulani even features a hydraulically-powered tender garage to store jet skis that keep guests entertained while the yacht is anchored.

There is also plenty of room for everyone to hang out and relax on the sun deck ...

... or in the main salon during inclement weather.

The superyacht's other amenities include a sunbathing area and cinema room.

Despite its luxurious amenities, Kidman reportedly "abandoned" the superyacht in a Sydney marina after relocating to Tennessee with husband Keith Urban.

"A spokesman for Kidman told the Sydney Morning Herald that the boat had been left at the marina because she had contemplated buying another apartment in the same block, which did not happen," The Independent reported in 2008.

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Luxury motor yacht Hokulani was built in 2007 by American shipyard Palmer Johnson. With an aluminium hull and superstructure, she features naval architecture by palmer Johnson and the interior work of Nuvolari-Lenard. This twin screw yacht measures 45.97 metres and can accommodate up to 10 guests.

Motor yacht Hokulani is the second launch in the 150 series by Palmer Johnson, following in the wake of O’Khalila which is in private hands. She is easily identifiable both on the water and in the marina with her distinctive exterior profile in a colour close to champagne and accents in striking black.

This tri-deck vessel displays a contemporary interior that boasts natural woods; not surprising in a yacht that aims to bring passengers close to the outside environment. To bring the outside onboard her main salon has large windows for panoramic views, while her outside spaces encourage outside living. She has a large sundeck and huge sunpads across her main deck.

There are three dining areas onboard; two for eight and one that seats 10, as well as a number of lounging areas. Unusually for a yacht of this size, there is no hot tub on board.

Amongst her five cabins are an indulgent master suite, two VIP suites and two twins. The split level master suite is located forward on the lower deck and features a private study, walk-in wardrobe, entertainment system and his and hers bathroom with Jacuzzi. The VIP suites and twin cabins feature en suite bathrooms and entertainment systems.

The crew’s quarters include four lower deck cabins that sleep eight and a double Captain’s cabin.

Luxury yacht Hokulani is powered by two MTU 4000 series 3650 horsepower engines that allow her to reach a maximum speed of 29 knots.

Featuring a dedicated crew, Hokulani is an excellent charter yacht for luxury vacations. The yacht cruises comfortably at 25 knots while her crew of seven, under the direction of Captain Egon Viljoen, ensure the needs of every guest are met.

The luxury motor yacht is equipped with an armada of water toys to provide endless entertainment during any yacht charter. Onboard water toys include tenders, PWCs, waterskis and tows, wakeboard, and snorkelling equipment. All toys are stored within a neat garage.

Hokulani cruises the West Mediterranean during both the summer and winter charter seasons.

The luxury vessel has been built to Lloyds classification and is fully MCA compliant.

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U2’s Bono – Cyan

Built by Codecasa, U2’s frontman’s motor yacht Cyan measures 48.70m in length and was built in 1997. Bono purchased it in 2008 and made a few changes to it.

The superyacht sleeps 12 guests in six cabins and boasts a baby grand piano, gym, outdoor cinema, a jacuzzi and plenty of toys.

Steven Spielberg – Seven Seas

Custom built by Oceanco and designed by Nuvolari & Lenard, director Steven Spielberg’s superyacht measures 89m and boasts an infinity pool, helipad, spa and massage room, gym and of course a cinema room. Seven Seas sleeps up to 12 guests and 23 crew and the owner’s room enjoys a private jacuzzi and study.

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Steve Jobs – Venus

Built by Feadship and designed by Philip Starck’s studio Ubik, Apple’s Steve Jobs’ 79m superyacht Venus cost more than €100M. The yacht boasts a master’s suite, six guest cabins and 14 crew cabins.

Jobs sadly never saw the yacht, as it wasn’t delivered until 2012, a year after his death. The superyacht is still owned by the Jobs family.

Sean Combs – Maraya

The 54m motor yacht owned by Sean Combs, also known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, was built by CRN and cost $65 million. The rapper and mogul is accustomed to a luxurious lifestyle and his yacht has everything for entertainment at sea including a nightclub with bar – of course – and giant screen. Maraya sleeps 12 guests and the master suite boasts a private balcony which can be lowered when the yacht is anchored.

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Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman owns a Sunseeker Manhattan 74 called Hokulani .

Hokulani means ‘heavenly star’, which is one of Kidman’s names. Her parents choose an Hawaiian moniker in honour of the actress’s birthplace, Honolulu.

The 22.55m motor yacht cost £2.1m, is split over three levels and boasts an owner’s room and five guest suites, captain’s cabin and quarters for 8 crew, plus an entertainment room and several water toys. The interior was designed by Nuvolari & Lenard.

Dolce & Gabbana – Regina d’Italia

Built by Codecasa, the Italian designers’ motor yacht is 51m long and reaches a speed of 17.5 knots. Its aluminium exterior is rather minimal but its interior mirrors the duo’s fashion vision, with opulent and baroque furnishing. Regina d’ Italia (Queen of Italy) offers a master’s suite, five guest cabins, one captain cabin and four cabins for crew members.

Andrey Melnichenko – Motor Yacht A

Designed by Philip Starck and built by Blohm and Voss, 119m Motor Yacht A cost a whopping $300 million and took four years to complete. It’s one of the biggest motor yachts in the world and belongs to Russian industrialist Andrey Melnichenko.

Motor Yacht A sleeps 14 guests and 42 crew. The plush yacht has all that the oligarch can desire, including three spa pools, helipad, underwater lights, jacuzzi, tender garage and entertainment rooms. Andrey Melnichenko also owns the famous Sailing Yacht A , also designed by Starck.

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The 46-year-old actress, who was born on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, revealed recently to InStyle that her parents actually gave her the Hawaiian name of Hokulani after birth, a name that Urban often calls his wife at home.

"My mum called me Hokulani. It means heavenly star," the Oscar winner explained to the mag. "That's something no one really knows. Well, Keith knows it. He calls me Hokulani sometimes."

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These days, Kidman says she hasn't lost touch with her childhood memories of spending time outdoors around nature.

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Nicole Kidman’s 28 Best Film and TV Performances, Ranked

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Nicole Kidman is the rare actress in the 21st century who, like the stars of Hollywood’s golden years, doesn’t disappear into roles so much as elevate films by her mere presence.

She’s certainly swung big at mainstream blockbusters (think: the “Aquaman” films) that might feel out of her step with her character-driven work elsewhere (like most of the films on the list that follows). But that’s because the Australian icon is unafraid of any role, whether stripping down her post-Oscar, A-lister veneer to film Lars von Trier’s Brechtian “Dogville” in Sweden, slipping into a bathtub with the 10-year-old possible reincarnation of her dead husband in Jonathan Glazer’s “Birth,” or, yes, donning a fake nose to play a suicidal Virginia Woolf for her Oscar-winning turn in “The Hours.”

On April 27 in Los Angeles, Nicole Kidman will receive the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award , joining the ranks of Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Julie Andrews, Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Shirley MacLaine, Alfred Hitchcock, and Mike Nichols. She’s the first Australian to take the prestigious honor, and certainly one of the youngest recipients. But Kidman has beyond proven herself in recent years with a steady stream of projects on screens big and small. And don’t forget her beloved AMC ads , which have now made her into a theater-championing icon.

Surely, the five-time Oscar nominee (most recently as Lucille Ball in “Being the Ricardos”) has one of the most tireless work ethics of any screen star. She most recently wowed on Amazon Prime Video with her performance as a wealthy American expatriate in Hong Kong looking for her missing son in “Expats.” She’s soon back on screens in A24’s “Babygirl” as a corporate CEO embroiled in an affair with a much younger charge. And she has at least four more movies in post-production right now, often shepherding them through her production company Blossom Films. Kidman figured out the only way to get women’s roles right onscreen was to make them for herself, and set a standard for up-and-comers after her.

Below, in honor of Kidman’s upcoming AFI tribute, IndieWire picks 28 (28! and that hardly scratches the surface!) of her best film and TV roles and ranks them.

Samantha Bergeson, Christian Blauvelt, Wilson Chapman, Kate Erbland, Jim Hemphill, Mark Peikert, Sarah Shachat, Erin Strecker, and Ben Travers contributed to this story.

28. ‘The Stepford Wives’ (2004)

Frank Oz’s black comedy remake of the classic thriller is a mess, but the performances are so fun you can almost forgive its confused tone (not to mention the twist on the original’s twist is a great way to keep things fresh). A TV exec recovering from a nervous breakdown, Kidman and her family head to the suburbs for a fresh start (and maybe a more colorful wardrobe, her husband hopes), where Kidman is quickly alarmed by the eerily cheerful wives of Stepford. And though Kidman gravitates towards more serious projects, she finds the comedy in Joanna’s severe black bob and among the Lily Pulitzer prints in Connecticut, delivering zingers perfectly balanced on the knife’s edge of sincerity and spoof. The movie was a critical misfire (and a troubled production), so we have been deprived of more Kidman comedy performances. What a shame. —MP

27. ‘Being the Ricardos’ (2021)

No, Nicole Kidman is not a famously funny person — though she has excelled in comedic roles — so yes, her casting as Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin’s talky drama raised eyebrows and elicited that classic Lucy, ‘Ughhh!’ But then, Ball herself never claimed to be funny. ‘What I am is brave,’ she said, and Kidman runs with that theory, lowering her voice to a pack-a-day growl and giving audiences the behind-the-scenes Ball: a tough-as-nails powerhouse who had to practice every punchline in a mirror but understood the precise nature of physical comedy. What Ball did was an acquired skill, and Kidman artfully reveals the force of will that made it happen, in the process revealing (and reveling) in what it takes to create a legacy. —MP

26. ‘Batman Forever’ (1995)

While the ‘Batman’ franchise’s leading ladies have a tendency to swing wildly between meek good girls and wild women gone very bad, Kidman’s first foray into the superhero milieu offered her something different than the series’ history might suggest. In Joel Schumacher’s 1995 ‘Batman Forever,’ Kidman spread her wings as a newly created character — no superhero backstory here — who offers both sex appeal and psychoanalyst smarts.

No, Dr. Chase Meridian might not seem like the traditional Kidman role. Frankly, it seems easier to imagine her playing Catwoman and going the split-persona route of Halle Berry or Michelle Pfeiffer. But Kidman herself has long been clear about what was thrilling about playing the good doctor. It’s that she’s a damsel in distress, really, someone with plenty of brains and not a whole lot of sense, the kind of part she hadn’t previously taken on. In 1995, this was new for her, and her interest in playing something unexpected shines through in the role, complete with a fresh curiosity that sparks up a seemingly predictable part. —KE

25. ‘Destroyer’ (2018)

The hard-nosed LA detective with battle scars and emotional wounds to spare? We know that part, we know that movie, but we don’t know it quite like Kidman in Karyn Kusama’s fascinating 2018 neo-noir. Much has been made about the stripped-down quality of Kidman’s physical look in the film. As Detective Erin Bell, she’s all shapeless clothes, her trademark red tresses turned gray and short, but it’s the spareness of her emotional landscape that really stands out.

It’s the kind of role that we’re used to seeing men portray, and so Kidman’s spin on the ‘strong female character’ already scans as something different, but as she slips further into Erin’s darkness, as Kusama slowly reveals more and more about how she landed there, the actress touches something far beyond ‘unexpected casting.’ It’s gritty and hard-nosed and scary and decidedly different, and even as Erin doesn’t root for herself, we can’t help but root for Kidman. —KE

24. ‘The Northman’ (2022)

There are long stretches where it seems like the biggest mystery of ‘The Northman’ is why Nicole Kidman is in it. She has a regal mein as Queen Gunrun, no doubt, but Robert Eggers’ Vikingified riff on Hamlet is much more concerned with the violence and vengeance that Alexander Skarsgard’s Amleth wants to wreak on his feckless uncle Fjolnir (Claes Bang). But then the film gives her a monologue. It would be highly dishonorable to spoil what she says, or to whom, but it’s a scene so meaty, you can tell it sustained her for the rest of the movie’s run. It’s almost worth the entirety of ‘The Northman’ on its own, too. When Kidman gets to flex her intelligence, her sharpness, then her dialogue cuts deeper than any sword to the gut. — SS

23. ‘Far and Away’ (1992)

The kind of sweeping romantic epic they just don’t make these days, this is a film in which the delicate rules behind literal land-grabbing and the impact of the Great Potato Famine play major parts in understanding the story. It’s also the kind Kidman should have made dozens of.

In the 1992 Ron Howard epic, Kidman is spoiled little rich girl Shannon Christie (early ‘Titanic’ vibes), who opts to leave her wealthy Irish family (and handsome, if boring suitor; again, early ‘Titanic’ vibes) to travel to land rush era America to make her own way. She’s joined by a scrappy local farmer (Tom Cruise) who also wants his own life, land, and, hell — his own Shannon, too.

Howard drags his stars through all sorts of waypoints of pioneer life — the lush but cursed homeland, the dirty and mean big city, amber waves of grain vistas, the whole lot of it. Kidman finds a way to bring nuance to what is essentially a Grown-Up American Girl Doll role. Shannon finds herself through rough circumstances and hard luck, and Kidman’s early shine does a whole hell of a lot to sell this particular brand of American dream. —KE

22. ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ (1996)

Nicole Kidman steps into the worlds of Henry James and Jane Campion for the New Zealand director’s surreal and fever-dreaming interpretation of the 1880 novel. Kidman makes Isabel Archer, an American society woman who comes into great fortune only to debase herself in a series of bad conquests, an idealist with heroine qualities rather than a victim of circumstance. Heretofore in 1996 not always an actress who radiated hungry sexuality, Kidman brings both vulnerability and a fierce intelligence to the Jamesian lead. (Why doesn’t she just dump John Malkovich’s flaneur Gilbert Osmond? Kidman keeps you guessing.)

‘The Portrait of a Lady’ is an early showcase for Kidman’s penchant for searching, feminist women defying tradition, even if the movie is little remembered in either the actress’ or Campion’s filmographies. —RL

21. ‘Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus’ (2006)

Nicole Kidman took a few hairpin career turns in the mid-aughts, from the middling remake of ‘Bewitched’ to god-awful horror retread ‘The Invasion,’ plus career-topping performances in movies like ‘Margot at the Wedding’ and even ‘The Stepford Wives’ (another remake). After winning the Oscar for Best Actress for ‘The Hours’ and not bringing in quite as many awards as one would hope for Anthony Minghella’s ‘Cold Mountain,’ Kidman went for broke in indies.

Steven Shainberg’s ‘Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus’ is one such example, a bizarre and creepy surreal, well, imagining of the life of photographer Arbus. As Arbus was known as a chronicler of outsiders, the film finds Kidman digging deep into the midcentury icon’s craft, and befriending the social castaways of 1950s New York City. That includes a chronically hirsute neighbor played by Robert Downey Jr. The movie’s languid pacing and disturbing imagery were true to her subject, and Kidman was game to take another woman on the sidelines, looking beneath the surface of typical biography for something deeper and stranger. —RL

20. ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ (2017)

In a film as consumed with masculine delusion as ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer,’ it’s easy to see Kidman fall by the wayside as just the wife of Colin Farrell’s cursed cardiac surgeon, who is forced by the mysterious Martin (a terrifying Barry Keoghan) to choose one of his family members as a sacrifice. But Kidman is a shrewd performer, and she makes Anna a lot more interesting. She plays the part as warm and protective on the surface, but drops the polite veneer to reveal a deeply selfish streak as the film continues and the situation grows dire. It’s a chilly, remote performance, fitting for playing a woman willing to see one of her children die if it means she can live.

Opposite Farrell, she finds an absorbing anti-chemistry of sorts, displayed best in an excruciating sex scene that ranks among the most awkward in cinematic history. In the TV star stage of her career, Kidman has excelled at playing frazzled women in domestic distress; ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ twists that familiar type into far more complicated, unsympathetic directions. — WC

19. ‘Practical Magic’ (1998)

Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as two twisted sisters at their respective ‘90s primes? It’s not the stuff of magic, but rather just divine casting. Kidman plays somewhat against type as a drug-addled, bad boy lover who reluctantly returns to her hometown after accidentally killing her abusive boyfriend with the help of her sister (Bullock). Oh, and both of them are witches who dabble in black magic, poison, exorcisms, and love spells. Kidman and Bullock dancing to ‘put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up’ while getting blasted on margaritas just might be one of the most iconic film scenes ever, and leaves this not quite rom-com among Kidman’s best roles. It’s Kidman at her most fun, loose, and sexy — and with some of her best hair ever. No small feat given the pantheon of Kidman hair looks. — SB

18. ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ (2017)

There is a glaring absence at the center of Jane Campion’s ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl,’ and it only grows as each of the six episodes plays out. Call it connection, recognition, or identity, what’s missing for each of the main characters in ‘China Girl’ edges further away as the story twists and turns — like a knife pressed against a fraying cord. For Robin (Elisabeth Moss), Pyke (Ewen Leslie), and Julia (Nicole Kidman), they’re clinging to the love between a parent and a child. All that matters is the title of ‘mom’ or ‘dad,’ which — for the latter two adopted parents and Moss’ birth mother — is a rank as cherished as it is fragile.

Knowing the power it bestows, Mary (Alice Englert) refuses to refer to Julia as her mother. Pyke and Julia’s impending divorce puts added strain on their already rebellious, risk-inclined daughter, and her increasingly dangerous acts of defiance send Kidman’s character tumbling, untethered, into an emptier and emptier void. Watching Julia’s inability to parent her child is both frustrating and convincing because her opposition is equal parts vehement and empty. Julia talks a good game. As an academic, she can counter the absurd provocations made by Mary’s cartoonishly evil older boyfriend, but language and reason have no impact on him. She’s not engaged in a war of words, where she’s comfortable, but a nasty, lawless cage match for the soul of her daughter, and she doesn’t realize it until it’s much, much too late.

By the final episode of ‘China Girl,’ it physically hurts to watch Julia’s persistent passivity. To Julia, if Mary refuses to recognize her own mother — what she’s done for her, how much she cares for her —then Julia may as well not exist. (A key scene in the finale finds a way to literalize these ideas in a truly heartbreaking confrontation.) Kidman, though, very much does exist, and she leaves an indelible mark on the series despite her character’s shrinking stature, threading the needle between disappearing entirely and stealing the spotlight. As the cast’s resident movie star, she could easily ham it up to convey her character’s struggle more dramatically — screaming instead of speaking, gesticulating rather than persisting — but such showboating wouldn’t serve Julia’s journey. She is a mother adrift, not a woman waiting for her big moment. That Kidman can inhabit such a minimal space, embodying one more powerless parent in an ensemble filled with them, is a testament to her professionalism as much as her talent. She turns absence into abundance, once again earning any recognition that comes her way. — BT

17. ‘The Beguiled’ (2017)

‘The Beguiled’ is a war story, but not necessarily about the American Civil War. It’s a war for the attention and attraction of a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) who finds himself, wounded, at a mostly abandoned girls school in Virginia, and it puts Nicole Kidman in her general era. As the headmistress Miss Farnsworth, everything she does — from a look, a little French phrase, the way she adjusts her posture — is all about conveying power and control to the other women and girls; the fact that all this is legible to the audience underneath a veneer of politeness is a better testament to how well she understands this Southern matron than even the slight twang of her accent. She goes much, much further than politeness as the movie unfolds, of course, but Kidman’s performance is so complete from the jump that she makes Miss Farnsworth’s choices both surprising and inevitable. — SS

16. ‘Rabbit Hole’ (2010)

John Cameron Mitchell’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘Rabbit Hole’ lacks the wrenching immediacy of David Lindsay-Abaire’s original stage production, a character study of a grieving couple whose marriage frays following the death of their young son. Expanding the chamber drama to incorporate more characters and the world outside the couple’s house, the film saps the powder keg emotional intensity present on the page, resulting in a tearjerker that doesn’t quite ever provoke your tears.

When the film works, it works because of Kidman’s committed performance as Becca, the mother of the lost child struggling through her grief. Even in the pantheon of Kidman’s roles, Becca stands out as a particularly manic character, prone to acidic outbursts and frantic changes in emotional register. The film’s premise invites a certain level of melodrama, and it is to Kidman’s credit that it never goes too far in that direction. Even when Becca is at her most unlikable, you feel the despair she carries weighing down on her like an anchor. — WC

15. ‘Expats’ (2023)

When a project lands a star of Kidman’s stature, it’s typically a good idea to take advantage, and that’s exactly what Lulu Wang does in her extraordinary original series, ‘Expats.’ From the jump, Kidman serves as a turning point for a story of grief, identity, and indecision. Using her well-deserved star turn to lay out her character’s essential framework, Kidman plays an American mother living abroad in Hong Kong who loses a child. Struggling to move forward without knowing if she should — is her son dead or alive? lost or abducted? — Margaret is a woman torn in two. Should she keep searching or mourn and move on? Should she forgive those involved or hold them, and everyone else, accountable? Should she down on her instincts or give in to the advice of her loved ones? Ultimately, these questions boil down to one: Should she stay or go?

Kidman gets a number of scenes filled with big, overwhelming emotions. Her ability to channel pain through fury is staggering, as is her emotional clarity in moments where conflict stirs varied reactions. (Her waiting room quarrel with Margaret’s husband Clarke, played by Brian Tee, is incredible.) But ‘Expats’ really takes off in quieter, everyday interactions. It’s the way she leaves an apartment, buys groceries, and goes about her life that gets under your skin; that makes you feel empathy not just for Margaret’s situation, but for Margaret herself (who isn’t always the most likeable person). Kidman understands this at an innate level, and her measured, acute depiction of an impossible-to-imagine situation grounds her character and makes the show around her all the more affecting. Kidman has movie star magnitude and charisma, to be sure, but seeing those qualities stripped away creates a thrilling new performance here. — BT

14. ‘Dead Calm’ (1989)

Kidman was 19 when the camera started rolling on Phillip Noyce’s high seas thriller about a couple dealing with grief over the death of their child by embarking on a long Pacific Ocean voyage alone on their yacht. Even then she was playing a member of the ultra rich! Her Rae is someone whose tragedy has made her numb to life, and she certainly doesn’t need another trauma — but the sheer terror of this voyage arguably jolts her back into feeling alive again. Her husband (Sam Neill) rescues the lone survivor, played by Billy Zane, of a derelict pleasure craft drifting on the ocean.

Zane’s character is psychotic, of course, and he quickly tries to get rid of the husband so he can be all alone with Rae. ‘What about those people?’ Rae asks the castaway about his crewmates’ fate. ‘Thayre wasn’t any food poisoning, was thayre?!’ Oh no, they definitely did not die because of spoiled provisions, Rae. Even with her then shrimp-on-the-barbie Aussie accent and playing a part that’s meant to assay merely various degrees of ‘being menaced,’ Kidman more than holds her own with a Zane playing derangement dialed up to 11. George Miller was a producer on ‘Dead Calm’ and it’s easy to see some proto-Furiosa in the way that Rae fights back. —CB  

13. ‘Stoker’ (2013)

‘I can’t wait to watch life tear you apart,’ widowed mother Evelyn (Kidman) tells daughter India (Mia Wasikowska). That’s not in the cards, but you understand why India might be a little more willing to run wild with her newly discovered uncle (Matthew Goode) in the wake of her father’s death. Kidman is a mega-watt star, but she proves adept at waltzing away with an entire movie with a supporting role here, delivering an icy mother-from-hell for the ages, combining viciousness with off-kilter flirtation that adds a note of bleak comedy to director Park-chan Wook’s English-language debut. Inspired by ‘Shadow of a Doubt,’ ‘Stoker’ front-loads even more psychosexual intrigue to its story. —MP 

12. ‘The Hours’ (2002)

Anyone with a working knowledge of what types of roles win people Academy Awards would not be shocked that Kidman’s sole Oscar win for Best Actress comes from playing a historical figure. But that line of thinking discounts the work she put into making her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry’s domestic drama about three generations of women’s relationship to the novel ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ so singular.

Here was the final proving ground that the Australian actress was a utility to any director trying to execute a vision that may seem like too big of a swing on paper. Her immersion into Woolf’s world, demonstrating a creative force that pushed through tragic circumstances, is worthy of more consideration than ‘by a nose.’ — MJ

11. ‘Big Little Lies’ (2017)

A new subgenre of rich, complicated, occasionally boozing ladies with a mysterious past made its way to prestige TV with ‘Big Little Lies,’ based on the Liane Moriarty bestseller about a group of moms and the secrets they keep. Kidman is excellent as the buttoned up Celeste Wright who begins to spiral (another Kidman specialty) as she contemplate leaving her abusive husband (Alexander Skarsgard).

As written by David E. Kelley and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée in the superior first season, the TV role allowed Kidman the freedom to explore a character beyond the scope of a two-hour movie. It’s a well she’s now returned to several times over the years, but none surpass this purposefully chilly creation, for which she won an Emmy in 2017. — ES

10. ‘Malice’ (1993)

The less you know about Harold Becker’s wonderfully fucked-up 1993 neo-noir ‘Malice,’ the better. Still, it’s fair to note that what makes Kidman — starring here alongside Alec Baldwin and Bill Pullman in an early Aaron Sorkin script chock-a-block with Sorkin-isms — so good is what always makes her good. To wit, that’s her ability to embody seemingly disparate emotions and motivations in one wicked performance.

While other early examples — like ‘Far and Away’ and ‘Days of Thunder’ — rely on audiences liking Kidman’s characters and feeling warm to them, in Becker’s film, Kidman puts that idea on its head. Yes, we like Kidman’s charming newlywed Tracy, and damn, do we feel for her when she endures a medical emergency that seems to threaten her idyllic life with sweet husband Andy (Pullman). But… that’s not all there is to it, and the joy and pleasure of the film and Kidman’s work within it is watching all of that collapse in truly unexpected ways. — KE

9. ‘Margot at the Wedding’ (2007)

Noah Baumbach’s 2007 dramedy is one of his most caustic, and Kidman is at her most fearless in the title role — her character, a neurotic, prickly, judgmental fiction author, seems intentionally calculated to offend. Kidman’s genius lies in her ability to avoid sanding off any of the character’s rough edges while still letting the humanity push through to the surface; as Kidman herself noted at the time of the film’s release, ‘…the spikiness and the guardedness and the anger is actually a manifestation of her need to protect herself. She’s not in a safe place, really, because her sister doesn’t know how to take care of her, and she doesn’t know how to take care of her sister… They feel like they should be very, very close, but they actually do not bring out the best in each other.’ All of this and more comes across in Kidman’s extraordinarily subtle performance, one of her most nastily amusing and profoundly moving. — JH

8. ‘Days of Thunder’ (1990)

Kidman’s international breakout remains a high point of her early career, a high-octane banger that combines visceral thrills and only-in-the-movies touches (who in their right mind wears a white blazer to a NASCAR race?) and remains an incredible ode to her sex appeal. To put it mildly, Tony Scott’s ‘Days of Thunder’ rules (and is also the only film to bear the wonderous twinned screenwriting credits of ‘Robert Towne and Tom Cruise’), but much of that is due to Kidman’s uncanny ability to fuse steely reserve with wild abandon.

Kidman plays Dr. Claire Lewicki, a neurosurgeon who finds herself entangled with the rowdy high-jinks of both newbie driver Cole Trickle (Cruise) and his literally nutso rival Rowdy (Michael Rooker). In her role, Kidman is tasked with channeling both big ‘you’re all a bunch of boys!’ energy (‘and yerrrr scarrrrred!’) and a deep desire for Cole and his let’s-go-fast nature. The result? An internal battle that’s hot and wild and absolutely electric to watch.  —KE

7. ‘To Die For’ (1995)

After years of turning in fine work in thrillers (‘Dead Calm,’ ‘Malice’) dramas (‘Billy Bathgate’) and epic action films (‘Days of Thunder,’ ‘Far and Away’), Nicole Kidman proved she could also be hilarious in this wickedly funny media satire about a small town reporter whose ruthless ambition leads to murder. Using a Joyce Maynard novel (which was itself based on a true event) as source material, screenwriter Buck Henry and director Gus Van Sant gave Kidman her most layered and original character to date here, and like the character she plays she took the opportunity and ran with it.

Her performance is pitch-perfect: heightened but believable, superficially sweet and amiable with a constant undercurrent of savagery, and filled with impulses both self-aware and self-destructive. Much of her story is told via her own narration in a series of close-ups directed toward the camera, and in these moments Kidman and her character have nowhere to hide — we see every thought, feeling, and decision coming across with cruel and gleeful precision. —JH

6. ‘The Paperboy’ (2012)

For some, Lee Daniels’ sweaty late-‘60s grindhouse absurdity ‘The Paperboy’ is only so bad it’s good. But Daniels’ brazenly serious commitment to such silly pulp material — including Matthew McConaughey as a swaggering reporter back in his hometown to cover a death-row inmate (John Cusack) — warrants serious attention. At the time this film rolled around at Cannes 2012, Nicole Kidman was delightfully the most fun she had been in years as vamping vixen Charlotte Bless, determined to clear her husband’s (Cusack) name.

She pees on Zac Efron! She humps a chair during a prison meeting while eye-fucking Cusack! She’s out of control, sex oozing out of her, her blonde hair and plumped limps all but siren-calling the camera. Kidman is wrongly not acclaimed enough as a comic actress, and in ‘The Paperboy,’ she lets loose in a way she hadn’t before or hasn’t since. —RL

5. ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999)

Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ is the anatomy of the marriage of Dr. Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice Hartford (Nicole Kidman) and, in hindsight, also the anatomy of the marriage between Cruise and Kidman. They spent over 15 months shooting the sleepwalking psychosexual drama, which follows Dr. Bill’s plunge into a kinky conspiratorial underworld. Who sends him into the precipice? Kidman as Alice who, in a scorching pot-fueled monologue (‘it’s not the pot, it’s you!’), reveals all the loose ends in their marriage and exposes Bill’s worst insecurities.

While Kidman gets less screen time than Cruise, her performance is unforgettably eerie and almost somnambulent — like the way she drunkily flirts with an art dealer before turning him down. Why? He asks. ‘Becaaaaause,’ she says with a champagne drawl. ‘I’m maaaaaarried .’ — RL

4. ‘The Others’ (2001)

Kidman isn’t exactly an actor people label as a Scream Queen, but some of her richest and most arresting performances toe the line into the realm of psychological horror. Take the 2001 ghost story ‘The Others,’ a gorgeously crafted ghost story that casts her as the gothic heroine. A 1945 housewife awaiting her husband’s return from the war, Kidman’s Grace is a rigid Catholic woman whose faith and composure are tested when she and her children are subject to strange supernatural phenomena around their British island country home.

Alejandro Amenábar’s film is notable for its dripping atmosphere and gorgeous style, and Kidman complements that with a great sense of presence, between her statuesque body language and icy blue eyes. But as the supernatural incidents pile up and Grace’s composure is unsettled, Kidman ably frays and dissolves onscreen, her eyes turning buggy and her stature growing shaky. It’s an underrated challenge to depict pure horror on screen, but Kidman makes it look easy. —WC

3. ‘Dogville’ (2003)

Lars von Trier centers his Brechtian-inspired ‘Dogville’ around a blockbuster movie star, whose under-a-bell-jar image he set upon to deconstruct: Nicole Kidman. Freshly off her Best Actress Oscar win for ‘The Hours’ and also out of her messily public but oddly inscrutable divorce from Tom Cruise, Kidman flew to rural Trollhättan in Sweden to get on a soundstage with von Trier and his cast.

Grace Mulligan (Kidman) is on the run from her gangster father (James Caan) in a hardscrabble town whose residents’ largesse eventually turns to disgust and disdain, and they degrade and debase her to a breaking point. Ar least, until she decides to take it no longer.

This is one of Kidman’s boldest and most unvarnished performances, a complete 180 from her prior star turns, and an indication that Kidman would never let herself get too comfortable in her choice of roles. — RL

2. ‘Birth’ (2004)

Jonathan Glazer’s drama starring Nicole Kidman as a woman confronted by her past perplexed audiences and critics when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. But there’s no denying it’s one of Kidman’s crowning achievements and certainly most out-there turns.

Anna (Kidman) is understandably quite jolted when a 10-year-old boy shows up at her Manhattan doorstep claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband. She’s meanwhile readying to marry someone else, the vanilla Joseph (Danny Huston), and this chain of events sends her into confusion and questioning. A masterful long take of Kidman settling into her seat at the opera after the news of her dead husband’s possible return comes crashing and swelling down around her is a testament to her ability to telegraph emotions merely from the quickening of her heartbeat and the slow cascade of panic on her face. — RL

1. ‘Moulin Rouge! (2001)

‘Oh poetry, yes. Yes. Yes! This is what I want: Naughty words!’ Kidman achieves a true career peak in Baz Luhrmann’s movie-length tribute to the ways in which performance plays into all aspects of life, from the bedroom to the ballroom and beyond.

As ‘the sparking diamond’ Satine, a courtesan in fin-de-siècle Paris, Kidman picks up the baton from Marilyn Monroe and delivers a rendition of ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’ with top hat and riding crop that kicks off the adrenalized star part to follow over the next two hours. Despite endless remixes of late 20th-century pop hits, as much CGI as you’d find in a ‘Star Wars’ prequel, Kylie Minogue as a green fairy, and Placido Domingo as the singing moon, Kidman commands the screen, bending it all to her will — and still conveying fragility underneath. You can see her turn uncertainty into determination with a straightening of her spine and a lift of her chin after she’s just proclaimed Freddie Mercury’s ‘I’ll top the bill, I’ll earn the kill, I’ll have to find the will to carry on with the, on with the, on with THE SHOW!’ and walks past the camera to go and break poor Ewan McGregor’s heart.

This is a tribute to the interplay of artifice and authenticity in fueling sexuality as potent as any of Marlene Dietrich’s portraits of women leading men to their doom with Josef von Sternberg — and Luhrmann finds ever more screens and shadows and lighting effects to make Kidman into a Eurydice-like mirage. No popular spectacle this century has been driven by a performance as singular as hers here. —CB 

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Mike myers debuts white hair in first public appearance in over a year, mike myers unrecognizable in 1st appearance ... big new look since 2023.

Mike Myers returned to the spotlight for a rare public appearance this weekend ... but folks had to do a double take, 'cause nobody could recognize him with his new hair color.

The actor stepped out Saturday for the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala in L.A. -- where Nicole Kidman was being honored -- which marked his first time at a public event in about a year.

Mike looked unrecognizable with short white hair -- but was rocking it proudly as he spoke onstage at one point ... and posing for tons of pics before heading inside, all smiles.

He was even taking photos with fans too ... acting goofy and posing for a bunch of selfies.

Mike has always kept a relatively low profile ... as he and his wife, Kelly Tisdale , are known for keeping their home life super private. So, seeing MM out and about like this is pretty remarkable -- especially since he's a silver fox now, and totally leaning into it.

The last few times Mike was out in public was in April and May of 2023 -- in April of that year, his was quite a bit longer ... and more importantly, it was the same color of brown we've seen him in for years now.

In May, the guy was at a basketball game -- with pretty damn good seats, it seems -- but there ... he was wearing a beanie, covering up his 'do. Since then, he's been kinda MIA.

Anyway, it was clearly a big enough occasion to get Mike out of the house and into the public eye again -- remember, this was all about Nicole ... and anyone who's anyone showed up to give her her flowers , including a ton of celebs.

Among the stars in attendance ... Reese Witherspoon , Joey King , Michelle Pfeiffer , Jane Seymour , Miles Teller , Naomi Watts , Morgan Freeman and lots of others.

Mike certainly stood out though ... and we gotta say, he's looking real sharp these days!

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