Yaya DaCosta, former 'America's Next Top Model' contestant and actress, is set to star as Whitney Houston in the upcoming Lifetime biopic, it has been revealed.
According to the Huffington Post, Houston's life is set to be adapted for the small screen by Lifetime and actress Angela Bassett is set to direct the film.
The actress and model first graced our screens when she appeared on America's Next Top Model Cycle 3 in 2004.
The film will focus of Houston's turbulent marriage to Bobby Brown. Their marriage was rumoured to have been marred by Brown's infidelity and drug use.
The film, currently entitled Whitney Houston, will follow the couple from their first meeting through their marriage to the height of their celebrity in the mid-90s.
