Oprah Winfrey to Star in HBO Films’ ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’
She also will executive produce the movie. Oprah Winfrey has signed on for a rare leading role. She will headline HBO Films' forthcoming project The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the pay cabler announced Monday. Based on Rebecca Skloot's nonfiction best-seller of the same name, the biopic tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her consent, pieces of the […]







