Nicole Kidman Trivia
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49 free Nicole Kidman trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu to Australian parents, grew up in Sydney, dropped out of high school to act, and has spent four decades choosing the strangest, riskiest roles on offer. She is the first Australian to win the Best Actress Oscar, the first Australian actor to get the AFI Life Achievement Award, and the person who reportedly earned $12 million for a three-minute perfume commercial. This quiz walks through that career in order: the 1983 debut in Bush Christmas, the breakthrough in Dead Calm, the Tom Cruise years, Moulin Rouge! and The Hours, the auteur era of Dogville and Birth, the television comeback with Big Little Lies, and the Venice-winning turn in Babygirl. Along the way it stops at her Hawaiian name, her Sydney suburb, her stage work in The Blue Room and Photograph 51, her charity statues, her hockey team and the AMC ad that became a meme. Early questions are for anyone who has seen a few of her films; later ones ask for directors, novelists, theatre awards and the perfume fee. Fifty questions, every one cited.
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Q 01In which US state was Nicole Kidman born?
Hawaii
Hawaii: her Australian parents were in Honolulu on student visas when she was born in 1967, which is why she holds both Australian and US citizenship.
Q 02Kidman played a villainous taxidermist in which family film?
Paddington
Paddington: Kidman's Millicent Clyde, a Natural History Museum taxidermist, hunts the bear from Peru across London to add him to her collection.
Q 03Which country singer did Kidman marry in Sydney in 2006?
Keith Urban
Keith Urban met Kidman at a 2005 Los Angeles gala honouring Australians and married her in Sydney the next year. She filed for divorce in 2025.
Q 04Kidman played which Hollywood star in a 2014 biopic that opened the Cannes Film Festival?
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly: Grace of Monaco opened Cannes, but her children called it inaccurate, and in the US it skipped cinemas to premiere on the Lifetime cable network.
Q 05Which actress befriended Kidman in their teens and later joined her in Flirting (1991)?
Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts met Kidman at an audition for a swimsuit advert that neither of them got. Kidman paid for a taxi to take her new friend home, and the two have been close ever since.
Q 06Kidman's 1983 film debut was a remake of which 1947 Australian classic?
Bush Christmas
Bush Christmas: at 16 Kidman played a farm girl whose family's racehorse is stolen by thieves. BMX Bandits, with Kidman on a bike, came out the same year.
Q 07Which 1987 miniseries won Kidman her first Australian Film Institute Award?
Vietnam
Vietnam: Kidman played a schoolgirl opposed to the war her brother is conscripted to fight. Its producers, Kennedy Miller, then cast her in Dead Calm.
Q 08Who played the menacing castaway opposite Kidman in Dead Calm (1989)?
Billy Zane
Billy Zane played the stranger who seizes the couple's yacht, with Sam Neill as her husband. Within a year the thriller had carried Kidman to Hollywood and Days of Thunder.
Q 09In Days of Thunder, Kidman's doctor falls for a driver in which racing series?
NASCAR
NASCAR: Kidman played neurosurgeon Claire Lewicki, who falls for Tom Cruise's stock-car rookie. The two co-stars married within months of the film's release.
Q 10Which 1991 film opposite Dustin Hoffman earned Kidman her first Golden Globe nomination?
Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate: Kidman played Drew Preston, the society mistress of gangster Dutch Schultz. The film took under $16 million against a $48 million budget, yet it won her a supporting-actress nomination.
Q 11Who directed Kidman and Tom Cruise in the 1992 Irish epic Far and Away?
Ron Howard
Ron Howard cast the then-married stars as Irish immigrants who end up racing for a claim in the Oklahoma land run of 1893. It was the second of their three films together.
Q 12Who wore the cowl opposite Kidman's Dr. Chase Meridian in Batman Forever?
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer wore the cowl only this once: the film was a hit, yet George Clooney replaced him in the sequel amid reports of clashes with director Joel Schumacher.
Q 13Who directed Kidman as murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone in To Die For?
Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant directed the black comedy, in which her small-town weather presenter seduces a teenager into murdering her husband. It won Kidman her first Golden Globe.
Q 21Which director's Dogville (2003) put Kidman on a bare soundstage?
Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier marked out the town's houses in chalk on a sound-stage floor, with a few doors and chairs for props. For the sequel, Manderlay, Kidman's role went to another actress.
Q 22Kidman's Ada Monroe in Cold Mountain falls in love during which conflict?
American Civil War
American Civil War: Ada, a preacher's daughter in North Carolina, waits while Jude Law's wounded Confederate deserter makes the long journey home to her.
Q 23Kidman and Will Ferrell won a Razzie for Worst Screen Couple for which film?
Bewitched
Q 14Who played Kidman's fellow witch sister in Practical Magic (1998)?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock played Sally to Kidman's Gillian, sisters under a family curse that dooms any man they love. Both returned to the roles in a 2026 sequel, 28 years later.
Q 15Which 1998 David Hare play earned Kidman a Laurence Olivier nomination in London?
The Blue Room
The Blue Room: Kidman played five characters in Hare's version of Schnitzler's La Ronde at the Donmar Warehouse, and the production carried her on to her Broadway debut.
Q 16Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was the final film of which director?
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick died in March 1999, six days after showing Warner Bros. his final cut, so he never saw the film open that July with Kidman and Tom Cruise.
Q 17Who played Kidman's love interest in Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor won the part of the lovestruck writer after Leonardo DiCaprio tried singing for the director and, by his own account, it didn't go too well.
Q 18Where is Kidman's haunted house set in The Others (2001)?
The Channel Islands
The Channel Islands: the manor stands on Jersey just after the Second World War, and Kidman's character keeps every curtain drawn because sunlight could kill her two children.
Q 19Kidman won the Best Actress Oscar for playing which writer in The Hours?
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf: the role made Kidman the first Australian to win Best Actress. With the Iraq War days old, she told the audience she had come "because art is important".
Q 20For The Hours (2002), Kidman wore a prosthetic on which facial feature?
Nose
Nose: the false nose was meant to bring her closer to the novelist's looks. The Guardian mocked "Nicole and her Big Fake Schnoz", yet the performance won her an Oscar.
Bewitched: Nora Ephron's comedy cast Kidman as a real witch who is hired to play Samantha in a remake of the 1960s sitcom, opposite Ferrell's vain actor.
Q 24Kidman became the face of which fragrance in a Baz Luhrmann-directed campaign?
Chanel No. 5
Chanel No. 5: the 2004 spot, with couture by Karl Lagerfeld, was reported as the most expensive advert ever made. Chanel's publicist insisted it was "a film, not an advert".
Q 25Which star replaced Kidman in the thriller Panic Room?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster stepped in after Kidman, two weeks into the shoot, found that the knee she had hurt filming Moulin Rouge! could not take the thriller's physical work.
Q 26Which Prince song did Kidman record for the 2006 animated film Happy Feet?
Kiss
Kiss: Prince insisted on watching the film before he would license the song, then within a week wrote the penguins a new one of his own, which won a Golden Globe.
Q 27Which antagonist did Kidman play in The Golden Compass (2007)?
Marisa Coulter
Marisa Coulter: Kidman at first turned the villain down, and signed on only after the novel's author, Philip Pullman, who wanted her for the part, wrote her a personal letter.
Q 28Who starred opposite Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008)?
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman took the Drover's part in 2006 in place of Russell Crowe, the director's first choice; Heath Ledger had been reported as the replacement in between.
Q 29Kidman played the muse of Daniel Day-Lewis's blocked film director in which 2009 musical?
Nine
Nine: Kidman's Claudia sings "Unusual Way", then tells the director she cannot keep playing the same part in his films. The story is taken from Fellini's 8½.
Q 30In The Paperboy (2012), which co-star played Jack, who becomes infatuated with Kidman's Charlotte Bless?
Zac Efron
Zac Efron: his Jack falls for Charlotte while she chases a death-row inmate she knows only from letters. Twelve years later the pair reunited for the romantic comedy A Family Affair.