Pollan to star in 'Natalee Holloway Story'

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Tracy Pollan has signed on to star in the television movie "The Natalee Holloway Story," Lifetime announced Friday.

"The harrowing true story of a teenage girl who vanished while vacationing in Aruba is the backdrop of 'The Natalee Holloway Story,' a Lifetime Movie Network original film about a mother's search for truth and justice," the network said in a release. "Tracy Pollan will star as Beth Twitty, Natalee Holloway's mother, in the highly anticipated movie based on Twitty's book, 'Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith.' 'The Natalee Holloway Story,' from Sony Pictures Television, will begin production this January and premiere on Lifetime Movie Network in April 2009."

Pollan is best known for her role on "Family Ties," a 1980s sit-com that starred Michael J. Fox to whom she has been married now for 20 years.

Her many credits include starring roles in the made-for-television movies "The Little Sister," "The Abduction of Kari Swenson," "Promised Land," "Dying to Love You," "First to Die" and the ABC miniseries, "The Kennedys of Massachusetts." She also had recurring guest roles on "Spin City" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."