Nicole Kidman on experiencing depression while portraying writer Virginia Woolf

Nicole Kidman (Matt Crossick/PA)

Nicole Kidman has said she was suffering from depression and felt like she was “not in her own body” while playing the role of writer Virginia Woolf in the drama The Hours.

The Hollywood actress, 54, portrayed the tormented author who was struggling with her own mental health while trying to write her novel Mrs Dalloway in the 2002 film.