Date 13/07/2015 - News People
NBC has cast its young Dolly Parton.
The network announced Monday that it has tapped 7-year-old Alyvia Alyn Lind to portray the young country icon in its upcoming TV movie Coat of Many Colors.
The movie takes viewers inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make the singer-actress who she is today.
The film is not a biopic on her musical life and performing career.
Instead, it's a family-oriented faith-based story about events from Parton's life when she was 9 years old.
The movie is set in the Tennessee Great Smokey Mountains in 1955.
