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Academy Award winning actress Kate Winslet will play the title role of American fashion model, artist and war correspondent Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller in an untitled film to be produced by Troy Lum and Andrew Mason of Hopscotch Features.
The film will document Miller’s extraordinary life and provide a very personal glimpse of some of her most defining moments, as told in her son Antony Penrose’s biography “The Lives of Lee Miller”, which has been optioned by Hopscotch Features.
Miller’s work is largely known today due to the efforts of Penrose, who has been conserving and promoting his mother’s work since the early 1980s. The production has obtained exclusive access to the Lee Miller Archives which is curated and managed by Penrose, and includes all of Miller’s photos and diaries.
Miller lived an exemplary twentieth century life. Time and again she found herself at the centre of great events; a muse and collaborator to famous artists such as Picasso and Man Ray, an acclaimed photojournalist documenting some of the most important moments in history, a witness to wartime atrocities, and one of the most glamorous and desired women of her time.
Kate Winslet won both the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for her portrayal as Hanna Schmitz in The Reader in 2008. She also won two Golden Globes that same year for her performance in The Reader and in Revolutionary Road opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. Her extensive resume consists of critically and commercially acclaimed work. Some of her most memorable roles have been in Titanic, Sense and Sensibility, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Little Children. She also won an Emmy for her role in HBO’s Mildred Pierce in 2010. She is one of the few actresses to have won three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT), with her Oscar, Emmy and Grammy wins. Winslet will next be seen in Danny Boyle’s highly anticipated film Steve Jobs.
Hopscotch Features was launched in 2009, representing an exciting collaboration between Troy Lum, Andrew Mason and John Collee (writer of Master and Commander, Happy Feet and Creation). The team were recently joined by former Weinstein executive Maeva Gatineau. Hopscotch Features’ output has included Anne Fontaine’s Adoration starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright, Disney production Saving Mr. Banks with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, directed by John Lee Hancock, and most recently, Russell Crowe’s directorial debut, The Water Diviner.
