With Nicole Kidman's impressive resume comes an equally extensive and glorious, albeit highly questionable, history of wearing wigs. We've ranked them all, from the most nightmarish to her crowning achievements
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos Courtesy of the studios Nicole Kidman has been acting for nearly four decades, and with that impressive resume comes an equally extensive and glorious, albeit highly questionable, history of wearing wigs. The Academy Award winner has not only solidified herself as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood, but also as an actress who is committed to wearing every manner of wigs at any chance she gets.
41. How to Talk to Girls at Parties In John Cameron Mitchell’s 1970s-set How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Kidman plays Queen Boadicea, an eccentric punk-rocker alien who looks straight out of a Party City catalog. Her choppy platinum wig with black streaks — and the film’s overall need to consistently remind us that we are in fact watching a movie about the English punk scene — is a tragically failed attempt at matching the punk aesthetic.
37. Bombshell While Bombshell took home the Oscar for best makeup and hairstyling in 2020, which was admittedly deserved in the case of Charlize Theron’s transformation into Megyn Kelly, Kidman’s wig was an abomination. Portraying Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, Kidman’s wig, which cost between $7,000 to $10,000 according to the Washington Post, is a stiff mess that will haunt us forever. Naomi Watts did it slightly better in The Loudest Voice.
33. Before I Go to Sleep While Kidman’s bangs in Before I Go to Sleep look half decent, the rest of her wig does not. From the textured waves to the terrible middle part, everything about it is painful to look at and marks another entry in the NKWCU’s peak Bad Wigs Era. 29. Secret in Their Eyes An English-language remake of the 2009 Argentine film of the same name, Secret in Their Eyes fails in many ways, one of which being the two bad Kidman wigs it subjects us to looking at — though they’re not nearly as bad as the one it’s put on Julia Roberts’s head. Kidman’s aren’t completely terrible, but they look like they’re floating at certain angles.
25. Australia Starring opposite Hugh Jackman in Baz Luhrmann’s romance epic set against the backdrop of World War II, Kidman wears yet another classic blonde hairdo. While she has said she isn’t proud of her performance in Australia, at least her wig wasn’t completely terrible. 21. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus A lesser-known entry in Kidman’s filmography is Fur, an unconventional romance about photographer Diane Arbus’s relationship with Lionel Sweeney . It’s a bizarre film that tells a fictionalized story about a woman who was known for her strange photos. Kidman wears an average brunette wig with side-swept bangs throughout, and there’s not much special about it aside from the fact that it’s not cripplingly bad to look at.
17. Top of the Lake: China Girl Twenty-one years after starring in Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady, Kidman reunited with the Academy Award–winning filmmaker for Top of the Lake: China Girl. No stranger to doing everything it takes to transform into a character, Kidman wears a nose prosthetic, a false tooth gap, and faux freckles for her part in the series.
13. Bewitched Both the vibes in Nora Ephron’s remake of the beloved 1960s sitcom of the same name and Kidman’s wigs are bewitching . Her curly blonde bob with bangs is gorgeous and doesn’t look like it was slapped on at the last minute, much to our delight. It’s also superior to the wig worn by Amy Adams in Ephron’s otherwise lovely Julie & Julia — you have to pick your battles.
9. Margot at the Wedding In Noah Baumbach’s Margot at the Wedding, Kidman’s titular character is an insufferable and unlikeable person, but if there’s anyone who could make you like a movie centered on an annoying character, it’s Kidman. She wears a brunette wig that looks good enough to make you question whether she’s actually wearing a wig or if she just dyed her hair. Kidman, her convincing wig, and the Paddington-esque hat she wears were robbed of an Oscar nomination.
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