With her decades as daytime television’s reigning queen, it’s sometimes easy to forget Oprah Winfrey is an actor. And an Oscar-nominated actor at that.
Well, we’ll be reminded again soon enough. The 60-year-old entertainer has singed on to co-star in Selma, the civil rights drama about Martin Luther King’s 1695 voting rights campaign.
Oprah will take on the role of Annie Lee Cooper, an elderly woman who became an iconic civil rights protester after being unfairly denied the right to vote. She will also serve as co-producer on the film.
And check out the rest of this cast — talk about an all-star line-up: David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr.; Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King; Tom Wilkinson as Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson; Tim Roth as George Wallace; Cuba Gooding Jr. as Fred Gray; Common as James Bevel; Wendell Pierce as Rev. Hosea Williams; Stephan James as John Lewis; Nigel Thatch as Malcolm X; Stan Houston as Sheriff Jim Clark; and Keith Stanfield as Jimmie Lee Jackson.
