Wendy Crewson has been cast in Equinoxe Films' biopic "
Winnie," opposite Terrence Howard and Jennifer Hudson as Nelson and
Winnie Mandela.
Crewson ("The Santa Clause") will play activist Mary Botha, who becomes a social worker in South Africa after witnessing a brutal police assault on a black youth. After befriending the Mandelas during the fight against apartheid, Botha is subjected to phone-tapping, police harassment and house arrest.