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Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play Zelda Fitzgerald in a biopic of the fascinating and ultimately tragic literary figure’s life, according to Variety.
Directed by Ron Howard, Zelda will tell the tale of the wife of acclaimed Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was not only her husband’s muse but a writer in her own right.
Fitzgerald was a Transatlantic socialite alongside her acclaimed author husband in the 1920s, mingling with Ernest Hemingway and other famous artists of the time. But the couple’s marriage was plagued with drama and they were living apart when he died suddenly in 1940. She met a tragic end eight years later when the psychiatric hospital she was living in caught fire, and she along with several others died.
Zelda was portrayed by Alison Pill in Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris.
Image: Alison Pill portrayed Zelda Fitzgerald in Midnight In Paris
For Lawrence, it’s just the most recent of several film projects in which she’s played a real-life figure. This year she earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of American entrepreneur Joy Mangano in Joy, and she’s also in talks to play health technology company founder Elizabeth Holmes in Bad Blood.
She’s also signed on for the role of war photographer Lynsey Addario in Steven Spielberg’s drama It’s What I Do, for which a release date has not been set.
The Academy Award-winner’s next spot on the big screen is in sci-fi flick Passengers opposite Chris Pratt, out in December.
