With a stellar year under her belt including nominations for Best Actress for her role in Netflix’s “Unorthodox,” Israeli actress Shira Haas has been tapped to play Israel’s first and only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, in an upcoming TV series.
“Lioness” will be produced by MGM/UA Television and is based on a book by the same name by Francine Klagsbrun.
Deadline, a Hollywood entertainment news website, reported that the series will follow Meir’s life from “her birth in Kiev to her American upbringing in Milwaukee, her role in the formation of Israel and her rise to become the new nation’s first and only female prime minister.”
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