Virginia Madsen has signed on to co-star in the Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia for Avalon Pictures and Fox Searchlight, reports Variety.

Hilary Swank and Richard Gere have already been cast in the Mira Nair-directed film, which chronicles the rocky relationship between the famed aviator (Swank) and publisher-promoter George Putnam (Gere), whom Earhart eventually married.

Madsen will play Dorothy Binney, Putnam's first wife.

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