10 Talented Actors Who Just Can't Seem To Make A Good Film

3. Nicole Kidman

No. Of "Rotten" Films In Past 5 Years: 9 Australian beauty Nicole Kidman was once considered to be Hollywood's leading actress; gorgeous, flirtatious and yet capable of truly transformative, intelligent and self-aware performances - and across such a variety of films, too, both big and small. Yes, Kidman positioned herself as an actress willing to go to any lengths to achieve greatness. And she did, of course, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her defining role in The Hours, in which she played the English writer Virginia Woolf. That attainment was followed by great performances in Dogville and Birth (her best to date). But Nicole's position began to flounder soon after that. A seemingly endless stream of bad movies - The Stepford Wives, Bewitched, The Invasion and Australia - were unleashed upon the public, and there was a new-found sense that the actress was struggling to find the "right" projects. And it's a situation, more than 10 years after Birth, that she's still in. Kidman hasn't had a personal hit - that is, a movie in which she is the sole lead - for Godknowshowlong. Yes, The Railway Man was passable and Paddington was a great kids' film, but Nicole is a secondary player in those films. Her own ventures - Grace of Monaco and Queen of the Desert, to name but two recent efforts - were plainly horrible, and it's silly to talk of undercooked flicks such as Stoker, The Paperboy and Before I Go To Sleep. It's such a shame, but this actress (once a Hollywood tour-de-force) seems incapable of finding a project worthy of her talents. No wonder she just returned to the London stage.