Nicole Kidman is no stranger to sorrow in Strangerland

Nicole Kidman has gone back to her roots with Strangerland, a tale of parents’ anguish as their kids go missing in the outback, says Helen Barlow.

Since Nicole Kidman left Sydney to film Days of Thunder with her future husband Tom Cruise in 1989, the actress — now based in Nashville with her second husband, Australian country singer Keith Urban — hasn’t lost her Aussie accent or her Australian sensibility. Though she rarely performs in her native tongue.

While currently receiving strong reviews for her portrayal as English scientist Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler’s play, Photograph 51, in London, Kidman did return to her homeland last year to make Strangerland, a very Australian film which also happens to be an Irish co-production.