Nicole Kidman’s 5 Favorite Places in Sydney, Australia

In the Hulu drama “Nine Perfect Strangers,” now in its second season, Nicole Kidman plays Masha, the unorthodox director of an unorthodox wellness retreat. Alpine trekking, dangerously cold ice plunges, hallucinogens — they’re all on the menu. Her approach might be unexpected, some might even say illegal, but Masha insists her motives are pure.

“It’s a cleansing of the mind,” Ms. Kidman’s character tells her clients, “to recharge, to rediscover inspiration.”

It’s a rare moment in the series when Ms. Kidman and her character seem to overlap: They both need the occasional recharge.

Nicole Kidman, 57, was raised in Sydney and began her acting career there at 16.Credit…Klára Šimonová/Getty Images

To the moviegoing, Hulu-subscribing public, Ms. Kidman is everywhere; she has been working almost at a superhuman level, starring in four series and four movies just in the last 18 months. Her most recent projects have taken the actress from Austria to Michigan to New York to Cape Cod to Majorca and on and on. But one place always holds special status on Ms. Kidman’s itinerary.

“Every time I return to Sydney, there’s a feeling of comfort and ease,” she said via email. “This city is where I grew up, where my sister and her family live, where my children love to spend their holidays.”