Sign in Sign up

Acting

Kim Novak

Career: Active from 1954 to 2001, busiest in 1955 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 23
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Vertigo
91/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Golden Globe Awards · New Star of the Year – Actress
1955 · Won
Source: Wikidata

Characters

3

The characters Kim Novak played, best-known titles first.

Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton

Kim Novak as Gil Holroyd

Kim Novak as Molly

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 24 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Kim Novak Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Violence
2.4, average 4.1
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8
Coming of Age
1.8, average 3.0

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Romance 4
Social Commentary 3
Biographical Drama 3
Melancholy 3
Historical Setting 3
Character-Driven 3
Psychological Thriller 2
Character Study 2
Psychological Depth 2
Tragic Romance 2
Classic Hollywood 2
Moral Dilemma 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

36

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

as Madeleine Elster (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000s

1 title

Bride of Trailer Camp

as (archive footage)

1990s

4 titles · average score 49

Dark Galaxy

as (archive footage)

Liebestraum

49

as Lillian Anderson Munnsen

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as Molly (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Children

as Rose Sellars

1980s

3 titles · average score 55

Malibu

as Billie Farnsworth

Falcon Crest

59

TV show · as Kit Marlowe

The Mirror Crack'd

51

as Lola Brewster

1970s

5 titles · average score 45

Just a Gigolo

41

as Helga von Kaiserling

The White Buffalo

37

as Poker Jenny Schermerhorn

Satan's Triangle

55

as Eva

The Third Girl from the Left

as Gloria Joyce

Tales That Witness Madness

49

as Auriol (segment "Luau")

1960s

9 titles · average score 56

The Great Bank Robbery

50

as Sister Lyda Kebanov (forger)

The Legend of Lylah Clare

55

as Lylah Clare / Elsa Brinkmann / Elsa Campbell

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

52

as Moll Flanders

Kiss Me, Stupid

69

as Polly the Pistol

Of Human Bondage

55

as Mildred Rogers

The Notorious Landlady

62

as Carly Hardwicke

Boys' Night Out

42

as Cathy

Strangers When We Meet

66

as Margaret 'Maggie' Gault

Pepe

56

as Kim Novak

1950s

13 titles · average score 64

Middle of the Night

69

as Betty Preisser

Vertigo

91

as Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton

Bell, Book and Candle

74

as Gillian Holroyd

Pal Joey

76

as Linda English

Jeanne Eagels

60

as Jeanne Eagels

The Eddy Duchin Story

63

as Marjorie Oelrichs Duchin

The Man with the Golden Arm

73

as Molly

Picnic

54

as Madge Owens

5 Against the House

50

as Kay Greylek

Son of Sinbad

45

as Harem Girl

Pushover

75

as Lona McLane

Phffft

59

as Janis