Nicole Kidman Tops TIME’s List of 13 Most Influential Women of the Year
TIME's Women of the Year 2025 list includes 13 winners, including actress and producer Nicole Kidman, WNBA MVP Aja Wilson, Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles, artist Laufey, actress Anna Savai, reproductive rights activist Amanda Zurawski, Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, Gambian human rights activist Fatou Baldeh; activist and author Raquel Willis; actress and breast cancer awareness advocate Olivia Munn; Bobbie co-founder and CEO Laura Modi; conservationist Purnima Devi Barman; and Gisèle Pelicot, a voice for survivors of sexual violence.
The 2025 edition of TIME Magazine's Woman of the Year features three global covers with Nicole Kidman, A'ja Wilson and Jordan Chiles, accompanied by in-depth interviews.
Actress Nicole Kidman was included in the list because of her decision to work with at least one female director every 18 months.
The Woman of the Year 2025 list also includes:
basketball player, WNBA star Aja Wilson, who started playing basketball at the age of just 11 and promotes the sport among women;
Frenchwoman Giselle Peliko, who secured an open trial against her husband in a case of 10 years of stranger rape while she was under the influence of drugs put in her food by her then-husband;
American Amanda Jurawski from Texas, who had to have an abortion due to pregnancy complications, but due to the ban on this procedure, she almost died and will no longer be able to have children, and after being hospitalised with septic shock, she became the face of the reproductive rights movement;
actress and model Olivia Munn, who shared her breast cancer diagnosis on social media, encouraging others to get screened, and later the National Cancer Institute reported a sharp increase in the number of people willing to take the test;
Gambian activist Fatou Baldeh, who fights against female genital mutilation (FGM);
gymnast Jordan Chiles, who promotes women's sports;
Icelandic-Chinese jazz singer Laufey, who combines various musical genres and quickly became a TikTok star;
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America, whose organisation is trying to overcome hunger in the country;
Japanese actress, singer and dancer Anna Sawai, winner of the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards for her role in the historical series Shogun, who is trying to break stereotypes about Asian women in Hollywood;
American writer Raquel Willis, who fights for the rights of transgender people;
Laura Modi, co-founder and CEO of Bobbie, a baby formula company, who fights stigmas around infant feeding;
Purnima Devi Barman, a biologist and wildlife researcher from India, who leads a women's environmental movement that is saving one of the stork species, the Indian Marabou or Argali, from extinction.
The women on the TIME list are dedicated to human rights, gender equality, anti-violence, access to healthcare and environmental issues.
On 25 February, TIME will celebrate the Women of the Year list in Los Angeles 2025 TIME list at the Women of the Year Leadership Forum and the Women of the Year Gala.