Janis Lives

Something told me Nina Arianda would be doing big things when I first saw a picture of her in character for her Tony Award-winning turn in Venus in Fur....

Glad I wa’n’t imagining things.

The actress has signed on to star as Janis Joplin in Joplin, a biopic covering the final six months of the legendary ’60s singer to be directed by Martha Marcy May Marlene’s Sean Durkin.

Given the fact that the project has exclusive rights to more than 20 of Joplin’s songs, Arianda is fully expected to use her own instrument to bring the woman to life for the big screen at last.

Photo: Zimbio.com.