Nicole Kidman

From an alcoholic cop in DESTROYER to a Southern belle mom in BOY ERASED and AQUAMAN’s Queen of Atlantis, the Aussie actress, 51, mines the complexities of motherhood on screen.

- Karyn Kusama

What makes Nicole Kidman unique is that I don’t think she signs up to do anything unless she’s signing up for it 110 percent. She’s always completely committed to the task at hand, and that includes trying things that don’t work, experimenting with ideas that take her down the wrong path, and pulling herself back in.

When we were preparing to shoot