Oscar-winner Viola Davis (Widows, Suicide Squad) has just signed on to play Shirley Chisholm in a biopic for Amazon Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It comes as part of a first-look deal Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, have with their production house JuVee.
In addition to starring, Davis and husband Tennon will produce the biopic withHomegrown Pictures’ Stephanie Allain.
“I hope to educate, because a lot of people don’t know who she was,” Davis told THR, saying that she and Chisholm “have the same synergy.”