50 free Nicole Kidman trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
Her Australian parents were in the United States on student visas when she arrived in Honolulu in June 1967.
Q 02What does Kidman's Hawaiian name, Hōkūlani, mean?
Heavenly star
The name was borrowed from a baby elephant born at the Honolulu Zoo around the same time as she was.
Q 03Kidman's Hawaiian name was inspired by what at the Honolulu Zoo?
A baby elephant
The elephant calf was born around the same time she was in 1967.
Q 04In which Sydney suburb did Kidman grow up?
Longueville
She attended Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls High School from the leafy Lower North Shore suburb.
Q 05Which fellow actress attended the Phillip Street Theatre with teenage Kidman?
Naomi Watts
The two later co-starred as schoolgirls in the 1991 Australian film Flirting.
Q 06Whose performance in The Wizard of Oz first made Kidman want to act?
Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch
She has said the green-faced villain, not the heroine, was the draw.
Q 07Kidman's 1983 film debut was a remake of which Australian holiday classic?
Bush Christmas
She was 16; BMX Bandits, the film most people remember, came out the same year.
Q 08Which 1987 miniseries won Kidman her first Australian Film Institute Award?
Vietnam
A second AFI Award followed a year later for the film Emerald City.
Q 09Who played the menacing castaway opposite Kidman in Dead Calm (1989)?
Billy Zane
Sam Neill played her naval-officer husband; Roger Ebert praised the palpable hatred between Kidman and Zane.
Q 10In Days of Thunder, Kidman's doctor falls for a driver in which racing series?
NASCAR
The 1990 film was where she met Tom Cruise; they married that Christmas Eve.
Q 11Which 1991 film earned Kidman her first Golden Globe nomination?
Billy Bathgate
The New York Times called her 'a beauty with, it seems, a sense of humor' in the gangster drama.
Q 12Who directed Kidman and Tom Cruise in the 1992 Irish epic Far and Away?
Ron Howard
It was the second of the couple's three films together; Eyes Wide Shut was the third.
Q 13Who wore the cowl opposite Kidman's Dr. Chase Meridian in Batman Forever?
Val Kilmer
Kilmer's single outing as Batman came in 1995, the same year Kidman made To Die For.
Q 21For The Hours (2002), Kidman wore a prosthetic on which facial feature?
Nose
The prosthetic made her almost unrecognisable as the author in 1920s England.
Q 22Which director's Dogville (2003) put Kidman on a bare soundstage?
Lars von Trier
Rolling Stone called it the most emotionally bruising performance of her career.
Q 23Kidman's Ada Monroe in Cold Mountain falls in love during which conflict?
American Civil War
Jude Law and Renée Zellweger co-starred; it brought Kidman her sixth Golden Globe nomination.
Q 14Who directed Kidman as murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone in To Die For?
Gus Van Sant
The role won her the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
Q 15Who played Kidman's fellow witch sister in Practical Magic (1998)?
Sandra Bullock
The film opened at number one in North America but was still a commercial failure.
Q 16Which 1998 David Hare play earned Kidman a Laurence Olivier nomination in London?
The Blue Room
It was her first Olivier nomination; Photograph 51 brought a second in 2015.
Q 17Eyes Wide Shut (1999) was the final film of which director?
Stanley Kubrick
It was the third film Kidman and Tom Cruise made together and drew censorship controversy.
Q 18Who played Kidman's love interest in Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
Ewan McGregor
Their duet 'Come What May' became her debut single and was nominated for a Golden Globe.
Q 19Where is Kidman's haunted house set in The Others (2001)?
The Channel Islands
Her character Grace Stewart lives there during World War II; the film grossed over $210 million.
Q 20Kidman won the Best Actress Oscar for playing which writer in The Hours?
Virginia Woolf
She was the first Australian to win the award, and used her speech to argue that art matters in wartime.
Q 24Kidman and Will Ferrell won a Razzie for Worst Screen Couple for which film?
Bewitched
The 2005 comedy was based on the 1960s sitcom and flopped in the United States.
Q 25Kidman became the face of which fragrance in a Baz Luhrmann-directed campaign?
Chanel No. 5
The ads with Rodrigo Santoro ran over the holiday seasons of 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008.
Q 26Kidman reportedly earned how much for the three-minute advert No. 5 the Film?
$12 million
It made her the record holder for the most money paid per minute to an actor.
Q 27Which Prince song did Kidman record for the 2006 animated film Happy Feet?
Kiss
Happy Feet grossed over $384 million, her highest-grossing film at the time.
Q 28Which antagonist did Kidman play in The Golden Compass (2007)?
Marisa Coulter
Catholic leaders criticised the film; Kidman said her own beliefs would stop her taking an anti-Catholic role.
Q 29Who starred opposite Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008)?
Hugh Jackman
The film was set in the Northern Territory around the Japanese attack on Darwin and grossed over $211 million.
Q 30Which number did Kidman perform with Daniel Day-Lewis in the musical Nine?
Unusual Way
Her screen time was brief beside Cotillard, Cruz, Dench, Fergie, Hudson and Loren.