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Marcia Gay Harden is set to star in painter Thomas Kinkade biopic "The Christmas Cottage" for Lionsgate and the Firm.

Jared Padalecki ("Supernatural") has the role of Kinkade; Harden will play the painter's mother. Peter O'Toole also is set to star.

Helmer Michael Campus will begin lensing in Vancouver this month from a script by Ken LaZebnik. Story is based on the events that led to Kinkade becoming an artist.

Harden, in theaters with "The Hoax," will next be seen starring in director David Goyer's "The Invisible," which opens April 27. In September, she'll be seen in Paramount Vantage's "Into the Wild."

Lionsgate is financing "Cottage," which will be produced by Kinkade's Birch Grove Films and Stirling Media labels. Producers are the Firm's Julie Yorn, Thomas and Nanette Kinkade and Michael and Arla Dietz Campus.