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Olivia Williams Courted To Play Eleanor Roosevelt Role In ‘Hyde Park On The Hudson’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 8, 2011 @ 10:06am PDTTags: Bill Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hyde Park On The Hudson, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Roger Michell
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Williams has emerged as the front runner to play Eleanor Roosevelt the Roger Michell-directed Hyde Park on the Hudson for Focus Features. She is in talks to join her Rushmore co-star Bill Murray, who plays Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Laura Linney, who’ll play FDR’s distant cousin and mistress. The Richard Nelson-scripted film is about a visit by King George VI to Hyde Park, the upstate New York home of the Roosevelt family in 1939. While the stakes are high—momentum was building toward WWII—the trip also happened as FDR’s wife discovered his affair with his cousin. Williams, most recently seen onscreen in Hanna, is repped by ICM.

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UPDATE: Laura Linney To Play FDR’s Mistress In ‘Hyde Park On The Hudson’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 6, 2011 @ 11:27am PDTTags: Bill Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hyde Park On The Hudson, Laura Linney
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: I was slightly misinformed on Laura Linney. Am told by her camp she will play Daisy, the distant cousin of FDR (Bill Murray), whose affair with the president is revealed during the visit of the … Read More »

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