Saoirse Ronan will play Linda McCartney in Sam Mendes’ four-part series of Beatles biopics , Variety reports. She joins the previously announced core cast of Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney , Harris Dickinson as John Lennon , Joseph Quinn as George Harrison , and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr .

Linda and Paul McCartney married in 1969. She’s jointly credited on 1971’s Ram , and performed as a keyboardist and backup singer in his post-Beatles band Wings . Linda McCartney’s first and only solo album, Wide Prairie , was released after hear death from breast cancer in 1998.

Ronan and Mescal recently led the 2023 sci-fi film Foe together. She also starred in a Mike Mills-directed music video for Talking Heads ’ “Psycho Killer” to celebrate the band’s 50th annive

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