Lee Pace Joins Cast of TEAM OF RIVALS Film

According to Deadline.com, Broadway veteran Lee Pace will join previously reported Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and David Strathairn in "Team of Rivals," based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of the 16th president. Steven Spielberg will direct the film titled, "Lincoln," featuring a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner.

The movie will focus on Lincoln and his cabinet as they struggle with the abolishment of slavery and try to find and end to the Civil War. The film is scheduled to begin filming in the fall of 2011, with an expected release in the fall of 2012.

Pace starred in several off-Broadway plays, including The Credeaux Canvas and The Fourth Sister. He also starred in a production of Craig Lucas's Small Tragedy, for which he was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award as Outstanding Actor. In 2006, Pace starred in the two-character play Guardians by Peter Morris, which earned Pace his second nomination for a Lortel Award as Outstanding Actor.
19th April 2011 marked Pace's Broadway debut, when The Normal Heart began its previews; it opened 27th April at the Golden Theatre. 

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