Camilla Luddington: Kate Middleton Actress In 'William & Kate' Lifetime Movie

She's is not a princess, but she'll play one on TV. Not a bad second option.

Lifetime, which announced in January that it was planning a film about Prince William and Kate Middleton's long road to marriage, to be aired around the time of the Royal Wedding on April 29th, have finally found the Kate half of their 'William & Kate': actress Camilla Luddington.

Deadline.com reports that the channel has settled on the English actress who, coincidentally, is from Berkshire County in England, as is the real Middleton. Luddington has experience with cable movies, as she's starring in an upcoming Hallmark Channel film, 'Accidentally In Love.' She's also appeared in 'CSI.'

She'll fake a royal wedding with Nico Evers-Swindell, who was already announced as William. Luddington attended Oxford University.

Here's the original press release announcing the film:

William & Kate tells the story of how the friendship between Prince William, second in line to the throne of the British monarchy, and future princess Kate Middleton, the stunning daughter of upper middle-class commoners, blossomed into a romantic love affair, charming the world with their recent engagement and eagerly awaited Royal Wedding. The film chronicles the history of William and Kate--from the moment the two students met at Scotland's prestigious University of St. Andrews, through the ups and downs of their nine-year courtship complicated by social and royal family pressures, and intense global media attention surrounding their storybook nuptials. William & Kate also stars Ben Cross as Prince Charles.

William & Kate will be produced by the Konigsberg Company, with Frank Konigsberg (Lifetime's Sex & Lies in Sin City, Lifetime Movie Network's Lies in Plain Sight) serving as executive producer. Mark Rosman (Greek, Ghost Whisperer) will direct the screenplay by Nancey Silvers (Lifetime's Sundays at Tiffany's and Girl, Positive).

Comments

[Max Shaw]

04:09 PM on 03/22/2011

She does kind of look like her. Thats for true.

[Bu Abdullah M AlMelhem]

08:34 PM on 02/05/2011

King of queens and they are in the beauty and the right betray their brothers in Adlan Loney's brother whom I am to them today the last day of my beard

[Cougar29]

08:14 PM on 02/02/2011

Twin, dark-haired, white females.

[ABXNOMORE]

05:11 PM on 02/12/2011

Not twins at all. Camilla is beautiful, Cate is not. Cate is lovely looking, girl next door type but not beautiful.

[Michael Mouton]

03:23 PM on 02/02/2011

The idea of royalty in this day and age is absurd.

[Dan Stewart]

03:19 PM on 02/02/2011

Camilla Luddington is way too pretty to play Kate.

[catcancook]

01:29 PM on 02/02/2011

This movie is silly. Every time I walk into the bookstore there are books about Kate,Wm. and even Harry which has become an idiotic obsession. You'd think people would have more to do than read things that are completely fabricated about them just to make a buck. The wedding pundits, the royal watchers,etc. all look mad imo going on about people they don't know and are not privy to their lives or conversations! It's crazy.

[nancynancy]

12:21 PM on 02/02/2011

Unfortunately, the actress is not as pretty as the real princess to be.

[BlackJAC]

01:28 PM on 02/02/2011

Depends on what you go for, really: Kate's got a girl-next-door thing going, while Camilla's a bit more glamorous.

[ABXNOMORE]

03:56 PM on 02/12/2011

Exactly and in my book Camilla is far more beautiful. When Kate is in her 40's she won't have that youthfulness she has now to make up for her rather ordinary girl next door appearance.

[MikeDu]

10:58 AM on 02/02/2011

Unless the biopic includes some 'tasteful' soft-core porn it sounds like its likely to be the most boring film ever made.

[NextStopWonder]

10:45 AM on 02/02/2011

I hate how the media is jamming these two down our throats. I mean, do Americans really care about them enough to watch a completely unnecessary movie about them?!?! They're getting married--good for them, I hope they're happy. But enough with all this!

[me again]

10:23 AM on 02/02/2011

These two kids have done nothing in their lifetimes to deserve a bio-pic. He's a member of the lucky sperm club and she's his girlfriend, big fat hairy deal.

[BlackJAC]

01:28 PM on 02/02/2011

You could say the same thing about pretty much anybody with a reality show.

[me again]

08:24 AM on 02/03/2011

Different story, not sure how you connected the two, it does not work.