What is the best Nicole Kidman TV show?

Prestige limited series dominate her television career, but a pair of 1980s Australian miniseries got there first. Rank the roles, wigs included.

1. 1
   The Undoing

   David E. Kelley's 2020 HBO thriller in which Kidman's Manhattan therapist Grace Fraser sees her life unravel after a brutal killing.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Vietnam

   The 1987 Australian miniseries about a family divided by the war, Kidman's first lead TV role, which won her an AFI Award at 19.
   800pts
3. 3
   Five Mile Creek

   The 1983-1985 Disney Channel frontier series set in 1860s Australia, Kidman's first regular TV role as teenager Annie.
   709pts
4. 4
   Big Little Lies

   HBO's 2017-2019 Monterey drama about five mothers and a murder, which won Kidman the Emmy and Golden Globe for playing abuse survivor Celeste Wright.
   600pts
5. 5
   Top of the Lake: China Girl

   Jane Campion's 2017 second season of the crime drama, with Kidman as the frizzy-haired adoptive mother Julia Edwards.
   600pts
6. 6
   Nine Perfect Strangers

   Hulu's 2021 wellness-retreat drama, based on Liane Moriarty's novel, with Kidman as the enigmatic Russian guru Masha.
   600pts
7. 7
   Expats

   Lulu Wang's 2024 Prime Video series about three American women in Hong Kong, with Kidman as a mother haunted by her son's disappearance.
   491pts
8. 8
   Bangkok Hilton

   A 1989 Australian miniseries in which Kidman plays a young woman framed for drug smuggling and imprisoned in Thailand.
   491pts
9. 9
   Special Ops: Lioness

   Taylor Sheridan's 2023 Paramount+ spy thriller in which Kidman plays CIA supervisor Kaitlyn Meade opposite Zoe Saldana.
   360pts
10. 10
    Scarpetta

    Prime Video's adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's novels, with Kidman as forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta and Jamie Lee Curtis as her sister.
    360pts
11. 11
    The Perfect Couple

    Netflix's 2024 Nantucket whodunit, adapted from Elin Hilderbrand, starring Kidman as novelist and matriarch Greer Garrison Winbury.
    360pts

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