Gillian Anderson to star as 'Gellhorn'

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Gillian Anderson will star in and produce a biopic of journalist Martha Gellhorn.

Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life, is based around a 2004 biography written by Caroline Moorehead, which covered the life of the legendary war correspondent.

Sharman Macdonald is penning the big screen adaptation.

Gellhorn's journalism career spanned from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam. In her private life, she suffered a failed marriage to writer Ernest Hemingway.

Speaking about the project, Anderson told Variety: "Martha Gellhorn was one of the most respected journalists of this century, and I thought Caroline's biography effectively encompassed her rich and complex life."