The Moulin Rouge! star won rave reviews for her turn in The Blue Room with Game of Thrones actor Iain Glen in 1998, and now she is set to make a comeback in the West End in a play called Photograph 51.

Kidman will play Rosalind Franklin, a scientist whose work was key to the understanding of DNA, in the production at London's Noel Coward Theatre. It is not yet known when the play will open.