Amy Ryan is to star in the true-crime drama "Lost Girls" for Netflix. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Justin Wilkes, Liz Garbus and Jayson Jackson arrive for the 58th annual Grammy Awards held at Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 15, 2016. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
May 18 (UPI) -- The Office and Gone Baby Gone actress Amy Ryan is to star in the Netflix film adaptation of Robert Kolker's non-fiction book Lost Girls.
The project will mark documentarian Liz Garbus' narrative feature debut.
"The story, both a true-crime story and a strong character piece, follows Mari Gilbert as she relentlessly drives law enforcement agents to search for her missing daughter and in the process sheds light on a wave of unsolved murders of young female sex workers on the South Shore barrier islands of Long Island," a news release said.
Garbus' films include The Farm: Angola, USA, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Bobby Fischer Against the World, Love, Marilyn and What Happened, Miss Simone?