![Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong'o star in a new series filming in Baltimore and based on a book by local author Laura Lippman. Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong'o star in a new series filming in Baltimore and based on a book by local author Laura Lippman.](https://www.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/04/25/EG7LPPPRIRC2LLZ4H436UI6LGM.jpg?w=535)
Attention, celebrity stargazers!
A TV series based on local author Laura Lippman’s “Lady in the Lake” began filming Monday in Baltimore with its stars, two Academy Award-winning actresses: Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o.
Apple TV ordered a limited television series based on Lippman’s New York Times bestselling novel, which is set in 1960s Baltimore.
Lippman, a former reporter for The Baltimore Sun who serves as an executive producer on the series, confirmed the news on Twitter over the weekend in a tweet:
“LADY IN THE LAKE. Set to begin filming next week — in Baltimore. With Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o.”
In a separate tweet, Lippman said that the adaptation would start shooting on Monday.
![A TV series based on the book begins filming in Baltimore in April 2022. A TV series based on the book begins filming in Baltimore in April 2022.](/wp-content/uploads/migration/2022/04/25/XZB3AEIO25A7TO6BKY2OJNSEFU.jpg)
Apple summarized the plot like this:
“An unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (Portman) to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood (Nyong’o), a hardworking woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore’s Black progressive agenda.”
Lippman isn’t the only member of her family who will celebrate a film milestone on Monday; husband David Simon’s six-part miniseries, “We Own This City,” based on a book by former Sun reporter Justin Fenton, premieres at 9 p.m. on HBO.