A comprehensive study of Nicole Kidman's work through the lens of ten of her most iconic roles. A new title in the popular Anatomy of an Actor series from world-renowned cinema magazine Cahiers du cinema. Australian Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman (b.1967) has consistently avoided being typecast by playing an incredibly diverse range of roles from Satine in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, to Virginia Woolf in The Hours. An accessible text combines both a narrative and analytical dimension and is illustrated by 300 film stills, set photographs and film sequences.