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Jolie set to play Gertrude Bell

Jolie in talks to play Gertrude Bell
Jolie in talks to play Gertrude Bell

Angelina Jolie is set to play British explorer Gertrude Bell in Ridley Scott’s upcoming biopic.

According to The Hollywood Reporter The Tourist actress, whose directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey will be released next month, will play the influential writer and archaeologist.

Scott is set to direct the drama, which will be written by The Constant Gardener's Jeffrey Caine and the film will tell the life story of Bell, nicknamed the queen of the desert, who died in 1926 at the age of 57.

English archaeologist and explorer Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868 - 1926)

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