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Showtime has tapped Michelle Pfeiffer to star as Betty Ford in its upcoming anthology series, The First Lady.
Pfeiffer joins the previously announced Viola Davis (playing Michelle Obama) for the show, which focuses on the pair, along with Eleanor Roosevelt, and the roles they played in shaping impactful and sometimes world-changing decisions during their time in the White House, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The part of Roosevelt has not yet been announced.
Emmy award-winning director, Susanne Bier The Undoing and The Night Manager is signed on to helm all of the episodes as well as executive produce.
The First Lady
OSCAR NOMINEE MICHELLE PFEIFFER JOINS OSCAR WINNER VIOLA DAVIS IN THE FIRST LADY (w/t) FOR SHOWTIME
OSCAR WINNER SUSANNE BIER TO DIRECT ALL EPISODES
Anthology Series To Star Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, With Davis Executive Producing via JuVee Productions and Starring as Michelle Obama
Oscar Winner Cathy Schulman To Executive Produce; Created by Aaron Cooley
LOS ANGELES – January 21, 2021 – SHOWTIME has announced that Oscar and Emmy® nominee and Golden Globe® winner Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) will star as Betty Ford and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce the anthology series THE FIRST LADY (w/t), starring and executive produced by Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Viola Davis (Ma Rainey s Black Bottom), who will play former first lady Michelle Obama. THE FIRST LADY is a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of th
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French Exit) will star as Betty Ford and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier (
The Undoing) will direct and executive produce the anthology series
The First Lady.
Michelle Pfeiffer is joining Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Viola Davis (
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), who will play former first lady Michelle Obama and will executive produce.
The First Lady is a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House.
December 15, 2020
Showtime ordered the half-hour comedy series “The Curse,” starring Oscar winner Emma Stone, who will also serve as an executive producer on the project under her Fruit Tree banner. The series will be directed by and co-star Nathan Fielder, who will also executive produce alongside brothers Josh and Benny Safdie and their Elara Pictures banner. A24 will produce the series.
Fielder co-created the series with Benny Safdie, who will also star. The announcement was made by Amy Israel, Executive Vice President, Scripted Programming, Showtime Networks Inc.
The short description reads, “The Cure is a genre-bending scripted comedy that explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.”