Considering the nonlinear coupling effect of the brushless doubly-fed machine(BDFM), this paper develops an active disturbance rejection control(ADRC) law to achieve high performance control. The flux ADRC and speed ADRC are designed in the control motor synchronous reference frame. The inner coupling effect and the external disturbance are estimated and compensated by using ADRC law. The proposed controller has strong robustness and is independent of the parameters or model of the machine. Simulation results show that, the ADRC strategy can accurately estimate and compensate the internal and external disturbance, and is more advantageous in control accuracy and disturbance rejection. The proposed controller achieves the decoupling of flux and torque, and then the flux and speed can be controlled separately. Therefore, the ADRC strategy is a simple and effective method for the high-performance control of BDFM.