Oscar Award-winning actress Natalie Portman will portray Jackie Kennedy in a movie about the first four days in the life of the former first lady after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.
Variety reported on the new role for Portman on May 13.
The film goes into production at the end of 2015, according to Variety, and will be produced by Darren Aronofsky, who directed Portman in “Black Swan,” for which she won the Academy Award for best actress in 2010.
The latest announcement came several days after Deadline Hollywood reported that Portman will star as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “On the Basis of Sex.” The film will follow Ginsburg’s obstacles-filled career on the road to becoming the second female justice (after Sandra Day O’Connor) and the first Jewish female justice on the high court. That film also is expected to start filming by the end of the year. — jta