Nicole Kidman Turns 50

Nicole Kidman is the epitome of fab at 50!

The Australian actress is celebrating the milestone amid what is shaping up to be her biggest year yet, as she continues to slay across both film and television.

ET first caught up with the red-haired beauty when she was just 22 and buzzing over landing a life-changing role in the 1990 hit Days of Thunder.

Tom Cruise, whom Kidman would later marry and adopt two children with, had spotted her in the Australian film Dead Calm and subsequently cast her as Dr. Claire Lewicki in the action flick.

“I rang my mother and sort of screamed down the telephone and said, ‘I don't believe this, I'm gonna do a film over here!’" she told ET at the time. “It’s a really good role for me and it's the only female role in the whole film, so hopefully it will be a stepping stone for me to do some other work here.” Following that role, the Hawaii-born star quickly rose to fame and took on films including To Die For and Batman Forever.