Unknown actors cast in Kennedy movie
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Two unknown actors will play John F. Kennedy Jr. and actress Daryl Hannah, who dated Kennedy, in an upcoming TBS movie.
Associated Press
Kristoffer Polaha will play the son of the late U.S. president in "America's Prince: The JFK Jr. Story," based on Christopher Andersen's 2000 biography, "The Day John Died," TBS said Friday.
John F. Kennedy Jr. is shown during a press conference for George magazine in this March 9, 1999, file photo. Two unknown actors will play Kennedy and actress Daryl Hannah, who dated Kennedy, in an upcoming TBS movie.
Polaha has appeared in TV episodes of "Angel," "Roswell" and "That's Life."
Tara Chocol, whose credits include episodes of "Sex and the City," "ER," "Judging Amy" and "The Practice," will play Hannah.
The movie is scheduled to air this December or in January 2003.
Earlier, TBS announced that Jacqueline Bisset would play Kennedy's mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Portia de Rossi would portray Kennedy's wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.
Kennedy, his wife and her sister Lauren Bessette died in July 1999 when his plane crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
