Photos show Nicole Kidman has become the ‘queen of transformations’

NICOLE Kidman has starred in over 20 films in the past eight years — and as these photos show, she’s had just as many complete transformations.

THIRTY-FIVE years after her breakthrough role in BMX Bandits, Nicole Kidman shows no signs of slowing down.

And as the New York Post noted this week, the instantly recognisable Aussie star, 51, has carved out a career in recent years as a surprisingly transformative actor.

Kidman has been remarkably prolific so far this decade. Including films currently in post-production, she’s starred in more than 20 movies since 2011 — and that’s not even counting her acclaimed TV turns in recent miniseries Big Little Lies and T op Of The Lake: China Girl.

She famously donned that fake nose to portray Virginia Woolf for her Oscar-winning turn in The Hours (2001), but some of Kidman’s more recent roles have seen her undergo much more drastic transformations.

Take a look:

Just Go With It (2011)

Nicole Kidman played a Hawaiian holidaygoer in this middling Adam Sandler rom-com.

The Paperboy (2012)

Another glammed-up role as she starred alongside Zac Efron.

Stoker (2013)

Prison Break star Wentworth Miller wrote this tense psychological drama.

The Railway Man (2013)

She starred alongside Colin Firth in this British-Australian war film.

Grace Of Monaco (2013)

Critics hated it, but Kidman certainly looked the part in this Grace Kelly biopic. Picture: Supplied

Before I Go To Sleep (2014)

She plays a woman with amnesia — and bangs!

Paddington (2014)

Shades of Anna Wintour for her role as a vengeful taxidermist.

Queen Of The Desert (2015)

Kidman went full Laurence of Arabia for this little-seen Gertrude Bell biopic.

The Family Fang (2015)

Arrested Development actor Jason Bateman directed and co-starred in this indie family drama.

Genius (2016)

Another year, another period biopic — this time playing famed costume designer Aline Bernstein.

Lion (2016)

Going deep into the ’80s as the adoptive mother of a young Indian boy in this moving real-life story.

How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2017)

She played ‘old-school punk’ Queen Boadicea in this sci-fi romantic comedy. Picture: Supplied

The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017)

Kidman stripped down for this confronting but well-received psychological horror film.

The Beguiled (2017)

Back in period attire as the head of a girls’ school for this unsettling Sofia Coppola film.

Big Little Lies (TV miniseries, 2017)

It took an award-winning return to television for many people to finally realise that Nicole Kidman is a bloody good actor. Picture: Foxtel

Top Of The Lake: China Girl (TV miniseries, 2017)

Another TV role, this time reuniting with director Jane Campion (they previously worked together in Portrait Of A Lady). Picture: Screen Grab

Boy Erased (2018)

She’ll next be seen as a religious mother in the deep south who sends her gay teenage son to be ‘cured’ of his sexuality.

Aquaman (2018)

Nicole Kidman, DC Comics superhero? It’s happening — she plays Aquaman’s mum in the blockbuster, out for Christmas.

Destroyer (2018)

This newly released still from Destroyer shows perhaps Kidman’s biggest transformation yet. Picture: Annapurna Pictures

The still above, made public today ahead of the December release of Kidman’s film Destroyer, shows perhaps her most drastic transformation to date. She’ll play an LAPD cop plagued by past trauma who, as director Karyn Kusama told Vanity Fair today, “wears her ugliness on the outside”.

“We always knew that what we wanted her to look like was a real middle-aged woman with a past that she wears on her face,” Kusama told the magazine.

“With sun damage and sleep deprivation and stress and rage, just in her whole physical body.”