Jewel to Play June Carter Cash in Lifetime Movie!

 Posted by at 2:29 pm on May 3, 2012
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Jewel - photo by Mike Carroll

Jewel just posted online a few minutes ago that she’ll be playing June Carter Cash in an upcoming Lifetime movie!  The Alaskan native wrote,  “Excited to announce I’m playing my hero June Carter Cash in a movie about her life @lifetimetv”

The movie is slated to be titled The June Carter Cash Story and will co-star Matt Ross as Johnny Cash.  This will be Jewel‘s first starring role in a movie, after having small roles in Ride With The Devil and Walk Hard.