{"id":349697,"date":"2011-03-30T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/doctor-who-star-to-play-shrimpton\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T12:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T12:01:20","slug":"doctor-who-star-to-play-shrimpton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/doctor-who-star-to-play-shrimpton\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who star to play Shrimpton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"57.684887459807\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>30 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>08:01 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Actress Karen Gillan has landed her first lead role since playing Amy Pond in Doctor Who, it has been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old TV star will play sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton in a BBC Four film, which will be screened later this year. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll Take Manhattan will explore Shrimpton&#8217;s relationship with British photographer David Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so excited to be playing somebody who had such a lasting impact on the fashion world,&#8221; Gillan said.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey and Shrimpton helped shape the Swinging London era of the 1960s. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Shrimp&#8217; became one of the world&#8217;s most recognisable faces after appearing on various magazine covers such as Vogue, Harper&#8217;s Bazaar and Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being dubbed the world&#8217;s first supermodel, she was also credited with helping to make the mini skirt popular.<\/p>\n<p>The film focuses on a particular week in 1962 in New York when the model and photographer first met at a photoshoot.<\/p>\n<p>BBC4 Four controller Richard Klein said the channel was committed to &#8220;dramatising moments that have changed the course of cultural life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/entertainment-arts-12906379\" title=\"Doctor Who star to play Shrimpton\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doctor Who star to play Shrimpton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 30 March 2011 Last updated at 08:01 ET Actress Karen Gillan has landed her first lead role since playing Amy Pond in Doctor Who, it has been announced. The 23-year-old TV star will play sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton in a BBC Four film, which will be screened later this year. We&#8217;ll Take Manhattan will explore Shrimpton&#8217;s relationship with British photographer David Bailey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doctor Who star to play Shrimpton - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/doctor-who-star-to-play-shrimpton\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Doctor Who star to play Shrimpton - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"30 March 2011 Last updated at 08:01 ET Actress Karen Gillan has landed her first lead role since playing Amy Pond in Doctor Who, it has been announced. 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