"The Borgias" star Holliday Grainger joins Disney’s "Cinderella"June 11, 2013 - 15:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - "The Borgias" star Holliday Grainger is joining the cast of Disney and director Kenneth Branagh's live-action adaptation of "Cinderella," TheWrap said. Lily James ("Downton Abbey") stars as the orphaned title character, while Richard Madden ("Game of Thrones") plays her handsome prince. Oscar winner Cate Blanchett co-stars as her wicked stepmother. Grainger is no stranger to well-known love stories, having previously appeared in Cary Fukunaga's "Jane Eyre," Joe Wright's "Anna Karenina" and Mike Newell's "Great Expectations," in which she played the female lead. The 25 year-old British actress is making a deal to play one of Cinderella's beautiful but mean stepsisters who constantly ridicules the protagonist. Allison Shearmur, David Barron and Simon Kinberg are producing “Cinderella” for Disney. Grainger, who played Jeremy Irons' daughter Lucrezia Borgia on Showtime's "The Borgias," recently co-starred alongside Robert Pattinson in "Bel Ami." Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |