EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan ( Brooklyn ) has inked a deal to play Linda McCartney , the first wife of The Beatles’ Paul McCartney, in Sam Mendes’ The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event , multiple sources tell Deadline.

Reps for Sony declined to comment. Ronan joins a cast that includes Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Harris Dickinson as John Lennon. With each of the Mendes-directed Beatles films telling the story of a different member of the band, Ronan is expected to feature prominently in the installment centered on McCartney, though it’ s unknown to what extent she might appear in the other three.

Linda McCartney was a photographer, musician and animal rights activist who r

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