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Apple TV + has once again succeeded in engaging a screen star for a streaming project. Oscar winner Natalie Portman stars in the new miniseries “Lady In The Lake”. She will be at the side of Lupita Nyong’o (
The miniseries is set in Baltimore in the 1960s. An unsolved murder case there has had an unforeseen impact on the life of the housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (Portman). As an investigative journalist, she reinvents her life and is also on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood (Nyong) at the same time. The hard-working woman tries several jobs to reconcile her role as a mother and activism for the civil rights movement.
“Lady In The Lake” is developed by Alma Har’el (
Natalie Portman was born in 2011 for her lead role in the ballet thriller
Lupita Nyong’o is also a veteran of the “Star Wars” and Marvel universes. In “Black Panther” she played the spy Nakia and in the most recent “Star Wars” trilogy she was seen as Maz Kanata – albeit in the form of a motion capture figure. In the animated series
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