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'Shameless' star Emmy Rossum and 'Mr. Robot' creator Sam Esmail are teaming with The Hollywood Reporter to create a limited series based on THR senior writer Gary Baum's investigative feature about Angelyne, L.A.'s mysterious billboard icon.

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00:00Shameless star Emmy Rossum and Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail are teaming with The

00:04Hollywood Reporter to create a limited series based on THR's senior writer Gary

00:08Baum's investigative feature about Angeline, LA's mysterious billboard icon. Rossum

00:13will star as Angeline, the self-created pop culture icon whose real name is Renee

00:17Goldberg.

00:17"'I've always been fascinated by the enigma that is Angeline,' Rossum said in a

00:21statement. At a young age, I can vividly remember staring up at her on a billboard

00:25above me and wondering, who is that woman?' From the moment I read Gary's recent

00:29piece, I knew I had to tell this story. It's a poignant and bizarre tale about the

00:33hunger for fame, the sexualization of women and the erasing of past traumas."

00:38Angeline, 67, is the LA-raised daughter of Holocaust survivors who found refuge in

00:42what Baum described as Schicksal drag. Her parents were sent to concentration camps

00:46before escaping to America and settling in LA's Fairfax district. Angeline eventually

00:51reinvented herself as a blonde bombshell famous for simply being famous by appearing

00:55on billboards in Los Angeles and driving a pink Cadillac around Hollywood.

00:58The Angeline Project marks the first scripted television adaptation of a Hollywood

01:02Reporter article since the publication's reinvention as a weekly magazine and home

01:06for long-form journalism. This will be the second time that husband and wife team

01:10Esmail and Rossum have worked together. The pair met while making his directorial

01:13debut, Comet, in which she starred. The couple married in May.

01:16Outside of Mr. Robot, Esmail will also write, direct and executive produce a two-season

01:21straight-to-series order at Amazon for Julia Roberts' TV series,

01:24Homecoming, based on the podcast of the same name. And Rossum recently saw her dramedy

01:28Shameless renewed for a ninth season at Showtime, where the series ranks as its most-watched

01:32original. The actress held out for equal pay with Shameless star William H. Macy last year.

01:37While the Angeline limited series marks her first for THR, the publication recently was

01:41nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for the unscripted series Close Up with The

01:45Hollywood Reporter. The series, based on THR's awards season roundtables, airs on Sundance TV.

01:50To read more on the upcoming Amgeline project, head to THR.com and tell us if you were

01:54excited to see the mysterious Hollywood icon brought to life by Emmy Rossum in the

01:58comments section. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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