Oprah Winfrey to Star in HBO’s ‘Henrietta Lacks’
- 8 years ago
HBO has tapped Oprah Winfrey to star in its latest biopic, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the network said Monday.
The film will chronicle the life of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line in the mid 1950s.
The story will be told through the eyes of Lacks' daughter Deborah Lacks, played by Winfrey.
The film will chronicle the life of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line in the mid 1950s.
The story will be told through the eyes of Lacks' daughter Deborah Lacks, played by Winfrey.