MARIANNE FAITHFULL - FAITHFULL DESTINED TO PLAY AUSTRIAN ROYAL

FAITHFULL DESTINED TO PLAY AUSTRIAN ROYAL

Sixties icon MARIANNE FAITHFULL was the perfect choice to play the Empress of Austria in SOFIA COPPOLA's MARIE ANTOINETTE - because her ancestors were Viennese royalty. The singer and writer plays Marie Antoinette's mother MARIA TERESA in the much-anticipated historical epic and feels she was destined to play the stoic character. She says, "My mother was an Austrian aristocrat and I had 800 years of background to draw on for this role."