20 Famous Faces We Almost Didn’t Recognize

American moviegoers met Nicole Kidman in the thriller Dead Calm (1989), but her career began years earlier in her native Australia. In 1983, a 16-year-old Kidman, sporting a wild mane of red curly hair, starred in the family adventure Bush Christmas. She and her siblings try to track down thieves who stole their family’s prized horse. That same year she also appeared in the much-loved kids’ movie BMX Bandits. Seeing her as a freckle-faced Aussie teen is a world away from the poised, elegant Hollywood icon she would become.