Los Angeles, Nov 16 (IANS): Actor Hugh Grant will star opposite actress Nicole Kidman in the upcoming series "The Undoing".

The six-episode HBO series is based on the book "You Should Have Known" by Jean Hanff Korelitz, reports variety.com.

It centers on Grace Sachs (Kidman), who is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She's a successful therapist, has a devoted husband, Jonathan (Grant), and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

Jonathan is described as an acclaimed pediatric oncologist, devoted husband to Grace and doting father, whose past undergoes scrutiny when he suddenly disappears, leading to a chain of terrible revelations.

Grant most recently starred in the critically-acclaimed miniseries "A Very English Scandal" and the hit film "Paddington 2".