At 17, she was cast in Rosetta, playing a working-class teenager struggling to escape poverty. Her performance earned her the Cannes best actress prize in 1999 (shared with Séverine Caneele for ...

The Grammy award winner has landed her first lead role as she is set to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe, an American gospel singer known as the "Godmother of rock and roll," in Amazon MGM Studios' Rosetta.

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Grammy winner Lizzo will be taking up the guitar to play Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the gospel singer who was one of the first to appeal to rock ‘n’ roll and R&B audiences ...

By Jenny Gross Émilie Dequenne, who won best actress honors at age 17 at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the Belgian film “Rosetta,” died on Sunday in Villejuif, France. She was 43.

Émilie Dequenne, the Belgian actress who first achieved fame with her 1999 Cannes d’Or-winning, big screen debut in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s drama Rosetta, has died at the age 43.

Lizzo is stepping into the acting world by honoring one of music’s true pioneers. This week, the Grammy-winning superstar announced her lead acting debut in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming film ...