Rose Byrne: Motherhood is My Greatest Role

has branded parenting 'the greatest role of my life' as she reflected on 'empowering' motherhood in a striking shoot for Tatler.

The actress, 46, shares two sons - Rocco, born in 2016, and Rafael, born in 2017 - with her long-term partner, fellow actor .

Despite recently receiving her first ever Oscar nomination for the drama film If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Rose has now said that being a mother is her best role. 

Speaking to Tatler as part of a glamorous cover shoot, Rose said: 'It's the greatest role of my life. 

'It's so corny to say, but of course it is. It's so nourishing, it's empowering, but there is a grief to it.'

She went on to add: 'Someone you might think would be a natural describes it as really hard. It's the greatest story.' 

Rose and Bobby met through mutual friends in 2012 but the pair had known each other in social settings for years prior. 

Despite their successful movie careers and high profiles, the couple live a relatively ordinary life at their family home.

She said: 'We go home and it's very like, "Hey, who's gonna do the dishes?"'

In the cover shoot for Tatler, Rose looked sensational in a cream satin one-shouldered gown, , as she lounged on a stairwell.

In a black and white picture for the spread, Rose opted for a period look in a corseted own adorned with tulle ruffles and feathers, as well as a tiered skirt. 

For her final look, Rose donned a bejewelled brown high-neck dress featuring diamante tassels and wide-arm sleeves. 

Rose recently opened up about finding motherhood 'challenging,' last month admitting that it can come with feelings of shame and a sense of 'losing part of yourself.' 

While discussing her new 'mum noir' film If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Rose reflected on how she can relate to her character's experience of motherhood. 

She explained that the constant demands of parenting can mean children sometimes 'lose their shape,' blurring a parent's ability to see them as a distinct little person.

She told The Times: 'That's totally an experience I've had as a parent and there is shame you feel around that.'

Rose continued: 'You don't want to feel like you don't love your child, but there is a grief around becoming a mother, because you lose part of yourself that you will never, ever, ever, ever, ever get back. It's OK to grieve that — in fact, we should. Because it's a before and an after.'

It comes after Rose scored her first-ever Oscars nomination.

Off the back of her Golden Globes win, the Australian actress is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.

'I can't believe it. I feel like I've snuck into the back of the bus,' she told The Hollywood Reporter. The thought of the legacy and the pageantry and the scale of it, it's impossible to not have that value. Of course, that huge kind of legacy and tradition of this ceremony is just undeniable, so to be a small part of that is unbelievable.'

She also gave an update on her pet bearded dragon that her husband Bobby Cannavale and their kids went to get while she was at the Globes.

'He's doing well! It's for the kids. The kids are very happy,' she added.

During her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, Rose said her brother George was her date on the night and revealed the bizarre reason her US actor husband could not attend the awards show.

'Thanks to my husband Bobby. He isn't here because we're getting a bearded dragon, and he went to a reptile expo in New Jersey,' she said. 

Rose faces strong competition for the Academy Award, going up against fellow Golden Globe winner and Irish star Jessie Buckley, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value and Emma Stone for Bugonia.

Read the full feature in the April Issue of Tatler available via digital download and on newsstands from Thursday 12th March