Angelina Jolie to play Maria Callas in Spencer director’s next biopic

Angelina Jolie will perform Maria Callas in Spencer director’s next biopic, The Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie will play the opera singer in a film

Maria will tell “the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris

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Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano, referred to by Leonard Bernstein as “the Bible of opera”

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Italian director Franco Zeffirelli had previously tried to tell her story in 2002’s Callas Forever starring Fanny Ardant

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Angelina Jolie to Play Maria Callas in Next Biopic From Pablo Larrain Following his Princess Diana biopic 'Spencer,' Larrain has found his next subject in the famed opera singer

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“Maleficent,” and “Eternals” actress Angelina Jolie has formally contracted to play a Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas in Oscar nominated filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s next movie, “Maria.

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The America-born Greek icon described as “the Bible of opera” by Leonard Bernstein is also related to additional of Larraín’s films, had a love event with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis

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Jolie is currently in postproduction on her fifth film as a director, Without Blood, the first under a new three-year deal she signed with Fremantle

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