Nicole Kidman to move back to Australia to be closer to her mum

She has lived in the US for many years with her husband Keith Urban and her daughters Sunday and Faith. But now Nicole Kidman will be moving back to Australia to be closer to her mum — enrolling her girls into a local school.

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have enrolled daughters Sunday and Faith in a prestigious Southern Highlands girls’ school ahead of their planned move home later this year.

Kidman is relocating to Australia to be closer to her ailing mum who has a cardiac condition that first raised alarm bells in 2016, two years after the family lost patriarch Anthony Kidman to a sudden heart attack.

On Friday, as the film star’s mother Janelle celebrated her 80th birthday, Kidman posted a birthday greeting from the US via Instagram.

Nicole Kidman is moving back to Australia to be closer to her mum Janelle. Picture: Instagram

“Happy birthday to my darling Mumma. I love you so much,” she wrote, posting a photograph showing Kidman and her mother in cosy conversation.

Having been devastated by her father’s death, Kidman is leaving nothing to chance concerning her mother.

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Both she and younger sister Antonia will this year relocate to be close to Janelle. Antonia and her husband Craig Marran, a financier, quit Singapore earlier this year after living abroad for a decade.

The couple and their two children, Nicholas and Alexander, along with Antonia’s children from her first marriage, have resettled on Sydney’s northern beaches where, for the past month, they have been regularly sighted at Avalon.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban with their daughters Sunday and Faith. Picture: Damian Shaw

Big sister Nicole looks set to move to Bunya Hill, Sutton Forest, the 45ha Angus beef cattle stud she and Keith Urban own in the Southern Highlands.

Daughters Sunday, 11, and Faith, 9, are expected to join their new classmates after the US school summer break.

Kidman’s rep could not be reached for comment.

The move has prompted Kidman to look locally for projects and last week she signed off on the TV rights to The Expatriates, a book by Janice Y. K. Lee, the Hong Kong-born American author of The Piano Teacher.

Nicole Kidman with her sister Antonia (left) and mum Janelle (right). Picture: Instagram

The book, according to a friend, was recommended to Kidman by her sister who lived the expat lifestyle in Singapore.

Kidman will executive produce the TV series with Per Saari, Alice Bell and Theresa Park for Blossom Films and Amazon.

The actor is also expected to star in the project which is based in Hong Kong and tells the story of the vibrant lives of a close-knit ­affluent expatriate community.

Last week Kidman was busy promoting her latest miniseries for HBO, The Undoing, also starring Hugh Grant.

She is due to fly home to Australia in May to launch the series which will be broadcast locally on Foxtel.

Originally published as Nicole Kidman to move back to Australia to be closer to her mum