Nicole Kidman is set to play 1960s singing sensation Dusty Springfield in a new movie. Newspaper reports in Britain say Kidman will team up with screenwriter Michael Cunningham, who wrote her Oscar-winning role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours, for the project.

The movie will chronicle Dusty’s rise to fame, her battle with drinking and drugs as well as her bisexual affairs. “It will be the real Dusty, a great artist who no one knew what to do with,” Cunningham told the Daily Mirror. “But she is going into history with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.”

Dusty, born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien, was a British musical sensation in the 1960’s, with 18 songs hitting Billboard’s Top 100. Best known for her song, Son of a Preacher Man, she worked in her later years with Elton John, and The Pet Shop Boys. She recorded the theme song for the 1980’s TV show, Growing Pains.

The 59-year-old signer died of breast cancer in 1999.