Eliza Scanlen Lands Recurring Role in Showtime’s The First Lady

Eliza Scanlen has landed a new role. Scanlen is set to have a recurring role in Showtime’s new anthology series, The First Lady.

The star is set to play a young Eleanor Roosevelt. The favorite niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor lost both of her parents at a very young age. At 15, Eleanor was sent to Allenswood Academy, where she became an independent thinking, progressive and self-confident young woman. She married her fifth cousin Franklin in 1905.

She will join Dakota Fanning, Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gillian Anderson, Kiefer Sutherland, Aaron Eckhart, and O-T Fagbenle.

Source: Showtime