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Heath Ledger's ex to play Monroe
The actress beats off competition from Scarlett Johannson and Lindsay Lohan to take on the role of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe. Read to know the details.
Actress Michelle Williams, the ex-fiance of actor Heath Ledger has beat off competition from Scarlett Johannson and Lindsay Lohan to take on the role of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe.
The
Brokeback Mountain
star who is bringing up her three-year-old daughter with Ledger, Mathilda Rose, has been chosen to play the blonde pin-up in the new movie
My Week With Marilyn
, reported
Daily Mail
online. Director Simon Curtis and producer David Parfitt picked the 29-year-old to play Monroe, but are still waiting for the Oscar-nominated star to agree.
The film will document Monroe's time filming the 1957 movie
The Prince and The Showgirl
with Laurence Olivier and is based on a diary kept by the film's assistant director Colin Clarke.
My Week With Marilyn
is due to begin shooting in London in June next year.
