Nicole Kidman to play transsexual

In «The Danish Girl», Nicole Kidman will play the first male-to-female transsexual, in 1931: Danish painter Einar Wegener.

Renowned for his modern horror fable «Let the Right One in», Swedish director Tomas Alfredson will direct the Australian actress in the biopic.

It will be the third time for Tom Cruise's ex-wife to play a real-life artist: her performance as Virginia Woolf in 2002's «The Hours» earned her an Oscar, and she also played photographer Diane Arbus in 2006's «Fur».