If you think you’ve been seeing a lot of Nicole Kidman lately, you’re right. The Oscar-winning actress has been seemingly everywhere on the big and small screens.
Although she has starred in at least one project every year since 2001, Kidman has recently ramped up her production to shoot a whopping six projects in 2024 alone.
Fans of the Australian actress went into a tailspin after the steamy trailer for her upcoming film Baby girl dropped on Tuesday. In it, she plays a CEO who has a passionate affair with an intern.
“I’ve done some films that are quite revealing, but not like this,” she told Vanity Fair of the role.
The erotic thriller arrives in theaters this Christmas and could serve as its own Christmas gift from the actress who practically created a subgenre of wealthy women of power keeping a secret. (Think Big little lies, Nine perfect strangers And The perfect couple – and that’s just TV.)
While Kidman is perhaps best known for her film roles, the actress has also become increasingly visible on streaming services. Her near-constant presence on various series has her choices questioned, with Indiewire asking, “Is Nicole Kidman doing too much TV?”
Kidman, however, is unfazed. She told L’Officiel in August: “I fell in love with the long format because I like character building and I like that they are limited.” She added that working on a series has a “cinematic feel” and a “slow burn” that she appreciates.
Her rating seems high, as she has logged as many or more TV credits than film in recent years. In 2023, she appeared in the DC Comics movie Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (a project she insisted was about working with director James Wan rather than the paycheck), which complemented the first season of Special Operations: Lioness on Paramount+ and Hulu’s Far Downs with fellow countryman Hugh Jackman.
She will have doubled that production in 2024 and already has big plans for 2025.
Here’s a look at the actress’ packed lineup, which doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
January-February 2024: Expats
Kidman started the year with Expatsa Prime Video limited series based on the novel The expats by Janice YK Lee. The show follows an American woman who moves to Hong Kong with her husband (Brian Tee), where they bond with other expats while dealing with a family tragedy. While one critic called Kidman “mesmerizing,” another accused her of “running on the fumes of her talent.”
June 2024: A family affair
This Netflix romantic comedy is Kidman’s first appearance in 2024, finding her in a May-December romance. In the film, the actress stars as a widowed writer who becomes entangled with an actor (Zac Efron) who also happens to be her daughter’s boss (Joey King). This is the second time Kidman and Efron have appeared on screen together, the first being a 2012 film The paper boy.
September 2024: The perfect couple
Kidman returns to Netflix, this time for a mystery series based on Elin Hilderbrand’s novel, and stars as a successful novelist whose son (Billy Howle) is about to get married in her and her husband’s (Liev Schreiber) lavish home. on Nantucket, when the wedding is suddenly derailed by a murder. While one review said it “retreads well-worn ground” and audiences would have to decide if they liked Kidman enough to stick around, another called it “soapy fun.”
October 2024: Lioness Season 2
The actress returns for season 2 of the Taylor Sheridan series (formerly titled Special Operations: Lioness) stars Zoe Saldaña as Joe, a CIA recruit who works in the Lioness program, which consists of other female Marines. Kidman plays a high-ranking CIA official who is also Joe’s boss. One outlet noted how unusual it was to have a series with two Oscar winners (Morgan Freeman was the other) whose first season only scored a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes. Season 2 premieres on October 27.
November 2024: Enchanted
Kidman joins an all-star cast led by Rachel Zegler as a princess who must break a spell that has turned her parents into monsters, and lends her voice to Enchanted as Queen Ellsmere.
December 2024: Baby girl
The Halina Reijn film is the second of the year in which Kidman plays the role of the older woman in a passionate affair with a younger man – this time with Harris Dickinson as an intern for Kidman’s CEO. With strong reviews – 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and the actress’ performance being called “spectacular” and “fearless” – the erotic thriller arrives as the actress’ first theatrical release in 2024.
Kidman keeps the momentum strong in the coming year. Season 3 of HBO Big little lieswhich earned the actress (and executive producer) two Emmys, will reportedly return in 2025. She will also star in Holland, Micha film about a Midwestern woman who suspects her husband is cheating on her.
