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'Grace of Monaco,' starring Nicole Kidman, to air on Lifetime

By Karen Butler
Australian actress Nicole Kidman arrives at the 87th Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, 2015. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Australian actress Nicole Kidman arrives at the 87th Academy Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, 2015. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, April 7 (UPI) -- Nicole Kidman's Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco is to premiere on Lifetime May 25, the cable television network said Tuesday.

The film co-stars Tim Roth as Kelly's husband, Prince Rainier III of Monaco; Frank Langella as Father Francis Tucker, a Catholic priest and Grace's confidante; Parker Posey as Madge, Grace's aide; and Paz Vega as opera singer Maria Callas.

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"Set in 1962, six years after her celebrated 'wedding of the century,' Grace of Monaco is an intimate snapshot of a year in the life of actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly as she reconciles her past as a Hollywood darling and her present as Prince Rainier III's wife," a synopsis said.

The movie was directed by Olivier Dahan, and written and produced by Arash Amel.

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