While Nicole Kidman is showing no signs of slowing down at 56, the Australian actress is being honoured for her immense body of work.
The Big Little Lies star will be the first Australian to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
Nicole told this week's Stellar she is so grateful to be 'honoured in this way'.
'Receiving this award fills me with overwhelming gratitude. To be the first Australian to be honoured in this way leaves me speechless,' she said.
'To be seen in the company of the greats like Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep or Barbra Streisand is beyond my wildest dreams.'
Nicole Kidman (pictured) will be the first Australian to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award
'I grew up as a Sydney suburban girl who just wanted to act; to have forged a career by doing what I love is a blessing beyond my dreams. I thank the AFI for this amazing honour.'
Previous recipients of the AFI honour include legendary heavyweights in world cinema like Jane Fonda, George Clooney , Robert de Niro, Al Pacino and Meryl Streep.
Awarded by the AFI Board of Trustees, the Institute's prize, next to an Oscar, is amongst filmdom's highest honours.
Nicole will be the 49th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, which was first handed in 1973.
The Big Little Lies star told this week's Stellar she is so grateful to be 'honoured in this way'
The ageless redhead has worked with some of biggest filmmakers of the era in her four-decade career including Stanley Kubrick, George Miller, Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion, Sydney Pollack and Lars von Trier.
Beginning her career in Australia, after being born in Hawaii in 1967, Nicole first rose to fame as a child actor in pictures like Bush Christmas (1983) and BMX Bandits (1983).
She later won great praise playing a rebellious 60s teen in the landmark Kennedy-Miller mini-series Vietnam (1987).
Her international breakthrough came with another Kennedy-Miller production, the thriller Dead Calm in 1989, co-starring Sam Neill.
Nicole co-starred in the Tom Cruise box-office hit Day of Thunder in 1990 (pictured)
Nicole later made three films with Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise between 1990 and 1999: Days of Thunder, Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut.
The pair wed in 1990 when Kidman was 23, and divorced in 2001 after 12 years of marriage.
Among Nicole's major films are, To Die For (1995), Lion (2016) and the Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) - for which she earned a Best Actress Oscar nod.
Nicole, who has continued to win praise from fans, peers and critics for her versatility is one of the most honoured actresses of her generation.
Her accolades include six Golden Globe awards, one BAFTA, two prime time Emmys and an Academy Award for Best Actress for the Hours in 2003.
Among Nicole's major films are, To Die For (1995), Lion (2016) and the Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008) and Moulin Rouge! (2001) - for which she earned a Best Actress Oscar nod. Pictured Nicole and Hugh Jackman in Australia
