Showtime First Lady enlists Michelle Pfeiffer to play Betty Ford

Showtime has brought in Michelle Pfeiffer to play the role of Betty Ford in their upcoming anthology series, “The First Lady”.

Pfeiffer joins Viola Davis (playing Michelle Obama) previously announced for the show, which focuses on the pair, with Eleanor Roosevelt, and “the roles they played in shaping hard-hitting and sometimes shifting decisions in the world during their time in the White House, ”according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Roosevelt’s role has yet to be announced.

Emmy-winning director Susanne Bier – “The Undoing” and “The Night Manager” – is hired to direct all episodes as well as executive production.

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“Michelle Pfeiffer and Susanne Bier have joined the brilliant and incomparable Viola Davis to bring forth the remarkable stories of these women, urgent, compelling and long overdue,” said Amy Israel, Showtime’s executive vice president for scripted programming, in a press release.

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Israel continued, “Michelle brings authenticity, vulnerability and complexity to all of her roles, and Susanne is a visionary director who commands the screen with fierce honesty and a singular visual style. With these formidable artists in front and behind the camera, we don’t could not ‘be more thrilled – especially at this unique time for our nation – with the powerful promise of the First Lady. “

According to Pfeiffer’s IMDb, “The First Lady” will be her first regular TV series since “Delta House” and “BAD Cats” early in her career. She most recently appeared in films like “French Exit” and “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”.

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No release date has been announced for the show.

Ford, wife of former President Gerald Ford, died in 2011 at the age of 93.