Nicole Kidman Named Among TIME's 100 Most Influential People.
Camera IconNicole Kidman Named Among TIME's 100 Most Influential People. Credit: Supplied, Time

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman top Time most influential 100 list

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NICOLE Kidman, Hugh Jackman and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have made Time’s list of 2018’s 100 most influential people.

The trio joins an eclectic group including US President Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, soon-to-be member of the British royal family Meghan Markle and Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman.

Time describes its list as not a measure of power or past achievements but a gauge of “individuals whose time, in our estimation, is now”.

The publication also asked an equally high-powered group to write brief stories about its top 100, with former US president Barack Obama penning a tribute to the Parkland, Florida high school students who suddenly became the vanguard for gun control in America.

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Nicole Kidman Named Among TIME's 100 Most Influential People.
Camera IconNicole Kidman Named Among TIME's 100 Most Influential People. Credit: Supplied, Time
Nicole Kidman on the front cover.
Camera IconNicole Kidman on the front cover. Credit: Supplied, Peter Hapak/TIME

In a post on Instagram, TIME, wrote: On #BigLittleLies, @nicolekidman plays Celeste, a woman who is struggling to leave her abusive husband. As @naomiwatts writes about Kidman, one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world, “she fills her character with so much humanity, it is beyond unnerving. Her emotions. Her fragility. Her ferocity. Her subtlety. Her physicality. Her bravery.” Kidman grew up with a mother who took her to the Women’s Electoral Lobby, a group in Australia that works to improve the position of women in society. “I was a kid, I was really little, but I gleaned things even then and there was a huge room of women that were making changes. I remember it—and so much of it is about passing it on,” she tells TIME. “So much of what we’ve built comes from our friendships. The stories that we’re telling and the way in which we’re doing it creates opportunities for not only our generation but the generations to come.”

Former US President Barack Obama.
Camera IconFormer US President Barack Obama. Credit: Supplied, AP
Time magazine cover of the Parkland students.
Camera IconTime magazine cover of the Parkland students. Credit: Supplied, Time

“They see the NRA and its allies - whether mealy-mouthed politicians or mendacious commentators peddling conspiracy theories - as mere shills for those who make money selling weapons of war to whoever can pay,” Mr Obama wrote.

Nicole Kidman apart of TIME's 100 Most Influential People.
Camera IconNicole Kidman apart of TIME's 100 Most Influential People. Credit: Supplied, Time
Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts.
Camera IconNicole Kidman and Naomi Watts. Credit: News Limited, Supplied

Naomi Watts wrote the blurb accompanying her longtime friend and fellow Australian actress Kidman.

“Dead Calm was released in 1989,” Watts wrote. “Big Little Lies was released in 2017.

“In the interim, Nicole Kidman has never once left our consciousness. And even after decades, she continues to break new ground.”

Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway.
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Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman.
Camera IconAnne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman. Credit: AP

Jackman’s Les Miserables co-star Anne Hathaway described the Australian actor as “deeply egoless”.

“I’ve never stopped and analysed why I love Hugh Jackman,” Hathaway wrote. “For me, it’s like loving chocolate or puppies or rainbows: effortless.”

Sheryl Sandberg and Jacinda Ardern with a pic of New Zealand's first suffragette, Kate Sheppherd.
Camera IconSheryl Sandberg and Jacinda Ardern with a pic of New Zealand's first suffragette, Kate Sheppherd. Credit: Supplied, Twitter

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg detailed Ardern’s rise from political prodigy to the youngest female prime minister in the world. “In a world that too often tells women to stay small, keep quiet - and that we can’t have both motherhood and a career - Jacinda Ardern proves how wrong and outdated those notions of womanhood are,” Sandberg wrote.

“She’s not just leading a country.

“She’s changing the game.

“And women and girls around the world will be the better for it.”

Actress Priyanka Chopra described her friend Markle as a “strong, free spirit” who “found her prince, fell in love and in turn made a cynical world believe in fairy tales again”.

Markle and Prince Harry, who also made the list, will wed next month.

Originally published as Kidman’s fierce new front cover