Los Angeles, Jun 11 (IANS): Actress Christina Ricci has agreed to play the infamous accused axe-murderer Lizzie Borden in a new TV drama.
The "Bel Ami" actress will play the lead role in a small screen biopic of Borden, who was famously acquitted of hacking her father and stepmother to death in Massachusetts in 1892.
The currently untitled project is being produced for America's Lifetime network, reports contactmusic.com.
The double murder made Borden infamous although she was set free following a trial during, which she was accused of butchering the couple with a hatchet.