Daisy Ridley has landed
the lead role in Paramount's upcoming big screen adaptation of A Woman of No
Importance.
Based on a book of the same name by author Sonia
Purnell, A Woman of No Importance is the biography of American heiress turned
spy Virginia Hall, who tried to get into the ranks of the American Foreign
Service in the years preceding to World War II. Rejected because of gender and
a disability - she lost her leg in a hunting accident - Hall worked for the
British intelligence unit SOE (Special Operation Executive) during WWII, later
joining the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA.
J.J. Abrams' Bad
Robot is producing the project, which does not yet have a director or
screenwriter attached to it.
For Ridley, the
biopic is the latest project to have landed on her desk since The Force
Awakens. The actress has finished filming the just now titled Star Wars: The
Last Jedi, and is busy starring in Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient
Express. She is also lending her voice to Peter Rabbit, and is attached to star
in Lionsgate's Chaos Walking, Paramount's Kolma, and the indie Ophelia.
Source - Deadline
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