Question: Iron Road is a 2009 Canada/China television miniseries, directed by David Wu, starring Nigel John Dermot Neill, known professionally as Sam Neill, is an actor who first achieved leading roles in films such as "Dead Calm", from which country?

Context articles: Merlin's Apprentice
Nicole Kidman filmography
Iron Road
Sam Peter Jackson
Doctor Zhivago (miniseries)
Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
Merlin (miniseries)
Amerika (miniseries)
Dead Calm (film)
Sam Neill

Merlin's Apprentice (sometimes called Merlin's Apprentice: The Search for the Holy Grail) is a 2006 miniseries.
 It is a sequel to the hit 1998 television miniseries "Merlin" with Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson reprising their roles as Merlin and the Lady of the Lake, albeit slightly different versions of their characters.
Australian actress Nicole Kidman made her film debut in the drama remake "Bush Christmas" in 1983.
 Four years later, she starred in the television miniseries "Vietnam", for which she received the Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini Series award from the Australian Film Institute.
 Kidman's breakthrough role was in the 1989 thriller "Dead Calm"; her performance as a married woman trapped on a yacht with a psychopathic murderer earned critical acclaim and international recognition.
 She followed this with her Hollywood debut opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's auto-racing film "Days of Thunder" (1990).
 Her role as a homicidal weather forecaster in Gus Van Sant's crime comedy-drama "To Die For" garnered Kidman a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in 1996.
 She worked with Cruise again on Stanley Kubrick's erotic thriller "Eyes Wide Shut" in 1999.
Iron Road is a 2009 Canada/China television miniseries written by Barry Pearson and Raymond Storey and directed by David Wu.
 Starring Sun Li, Luke Macfarlane, Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill, and Charlotte Sullivan, "Iron Road" chronicles the untold story of Chinese workers who helped to build the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s.
 The mini-series was filmed in the Kamloops, B.C. area with many local actors.
Sam Peter Jackson (born 17 March 1978) is a writer/director and actor best known for writing the play "Public Property", which ran at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End in 2009 starring Nigel Harman, Robert Daws and Steven Webb and was nominated for a 2010 WhatsOnStage Theatregoers' Choice Award as Best New Comedy.
Doctor Zhivago is a 2002 British television miniseries directed by Giacomo Campiotti and starring Hans Matheson, Keira Knightley and Sam Neill.
 The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Boris Pasternak.
Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill is a documentary about the history of New Zealand cinema written by Sam Neill and co-directed by Neill and Judy Rymer.
 The film was released in 1995, and was New Zealand's contribution to the British Film Institute's "Century of Cinema" series.
 The title refers to the dark and brooding nature of many of New Zealand's most notable films, which Neill considers a reflection of the nation's struggle to find, or form, its own identity.
 The film screened in the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, and won Best Documentary in the 1996 "TV Guide" Film and Television Awards of New Zealand.
Merlin is a 1998 television miniseries which originally aired on NBC that retells the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin.
 Sam Neill stars in the title role in a story that covers not only the rise and fall of Camelot but also the phase in the legendary history of Britain that precedes it.
Amerika is an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987 on ABC.
 The miniseries inspired a novelization entitled "Amerika: The Triumph of the American Spirit".
 "Amerika" starred Kris Kristofferson, Mariel Hemingway, Sam Neill, Robert Urich, and a 17-year-old Lara Flynn Boyle in her first major role.
 "Amerika" was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.
 Not wanting to depict the actual takeover, ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard set the miniseries ten years after the event, focusing on the demoralized U.S. people a decade after the Soviet conquest.
 The intent, he later explained, was to explore the U.S. spirit under such conditions, not to portray the conflict of the Soviet coup.
Dead Calm is a 1989 Australian psychological thriller film starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane.
 It was based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Williams.
 The film was directed by Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce and filmed around the Great Barrier Reef.
 Cinematography by Dean Semler and score composed by Graeme Revell.
Nigel John Dermot Neill {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 14 September 1947), known professionally as Sam Neill, is a New Zealand actor who first achieved leading roles in films such as "" and "Dead Calm" and on television in "Reilly, Ace of Spies".
 He won a broad international audience in 1993 for his roles as Alisdair Stewart in "The Piano" and Dr. Alan Grant in "Jurassic Park", a role he reprised in 2001's "Jurassic Park III".
 Neill also had notable roles in "Merlin", "The Hunt for Red October", "Peaky Blinders", and "The Tudors".
 In 2016, he starred in "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" alongside Julian Dennison, to great acclaim.