Nicole Kidman

By Xan Brooks Other stars who featured in the top 10 include Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and Leonardo DiCaprio. Drew Barrymore was the only woman on the list, placing at No 7. This suggests that female actors are currently providing better value than their male counterparts. The 2008 hall of shame contained...

By Catherine Shoard Is it too Scroogeish to suggest that had Patrick Swayze still been with us this elderly yuletide turkey (filmed in 2007) might have stayed on the shelf? Certainly the note of morbidity lends faint interest to a film that's like spending an hour and a half inside an Argos catalogue. Swayze pl...

By Deborah Orr Nicole Kidman has told a no-doubt agog GQ interviewer that she has "explored strange fetish stuff". She's not naming names, but she has also seen fit to inform the world that she has burned some of the diaries she kept during her marriage to Tom Cruise. Never fear – there is still room for ongoi...

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By Xan Brooks The Church of Scientology was founded in 1952 by the pulp novelist L Ron Hubbard. It is a system of beliefs that promises members a form of "spiritual rehabilitation" through a set of counselling sessions known as "auditing". Scientology is recognised as a tax-exempt religion in the US whe...

Last week Nicole Kidman told the US Congress that Hollywood contributed to violence against women by portraying them as sex objects, and Matt Damon revealed that he turned down scripts if they featured gratuitous violence. How hard is it for actors to make decisions of conscience?

By Andrew Pulver Kidman has represented the UN Development Fund for Women (Unifem) since 2006, but has worked for the UN since 1994 when she became a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef). She merged her professional and ambassadorial roles in 2005, when she played a UN empl...

By Paul MacInnes Actor testifies to congressional subcommittee as a goodwill ambassador for the UN Development Fund for Women Nicole Kidman addressed members of the US Congress yesterday to demand action on violence against women before admitting that Hollywood had probably contributed to the viol...

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By Emma Sibbles Where better to start than Nine, the new star-crammed musical by the director of Chicago, Rob Marshall, which premieres next week. It's a visual orgy of colour, talent and frocks. Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8½, Daniel Day-Lewis plays a famous film director f...

By Peter Conrad Publicising her new film Bright Star in Cannes earlier this year, Jane Campion grumbled about the "old boy network" of the Hollywood studios, lamented the lack of opportunities for female directors and declared with righteous gynocratic outrage: "After all, women did give birth to th...

with Tucci going all the way as Kubrick, Streep doing Nicole Kidman and … well, I suppose Daniel Day-Lewis will have to be Tom Cruise. and more »

By Marina Hyde Like all the juiciest celebrity autobiographies, though, it is already being excerpted – and you have to feel for poor darling Nicole Kidman, with whom Rubina starred in a French Schweppes advert. It's not the revelation that richer-than-Croesus Nicole couldn't resist a commercial pa...

By Xan Brooks The opening title arrives as a provocation, a mission statement. "Lars von Trier," it reads. "Antichrist." At the Cannes film festival, where the film was unveiled in May, the audience responded with indulgent laughter. Over the years the international press has grown accustomed to the an...