Nicole is taller than many people may think—the iconic actress towers at 5’11” (180 cm).

To secure more roles, she would lie and say she was 5’10’’.

“I was told, ‘You won’t have a career. You’re too tall’,” the Moulin Rouge star shared last year. “People would say, ‘How’s the air up there?’ Now, I get, ‘You’re so much taller than I thought’, or men grappling with how high my heels should be.”