Daisy Edgar-Jones Is Set To Play Carole King in an Upcoming Biopic
glamour.com. Her delicate, meticulously detailed performance earned her both a Golden Globe and a BAFTA TV Award nomination and a spate of enviable parts: Noa, the resilient heroine of Mimi Cave’s stomach-turning horror Fresh; Brenda, the mother at the heart of Dustin Lance Black’s Under the Banner of Heaven; and Kya, the beguiling lead of Olivia Newman’s .
But her next role could be even bigger: On December 15, broke the news that the rising star is poised to play the musical superstar Carole King.
The project, spearheaded by Sony Pictures and with Tom Hanks among its producers, is not a straightforward biopic, but a big-screen adaptation of , which charts the four-time Grammy winner’s early struggles and stratospheric success in the turbulent ’60s and ’70s.
The synopsis for the original show reads: “Long before she was Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, she was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
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