British actress Keira Knightley is to make her Broadway debut next year in a stage version of a famous French novel.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star will play the title role in Therese Raquin, based on Emile Zola’s 1867 classic.
Described as “a tale of love, lust, betrayal, and guilt,” the play will cast her as a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage who has an affair with one of her husband’s friends.
The Roundabout Theatre Company show opens in October 2015 in New York.
Knightley, who turns 30 next year, previously trod the boards in London in The Misanthrope and The Children’s Hour.
The actress has two films out next month in the UK — World War Two drama The Imitation Game and US comedy Say When, BBC informs.
