Guess who is playing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis now… after Natalie Portman and Katie Holmes did it first

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Jackie O - also known as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - is being portrayed once again for a new movie.
The former First Lady of the United States has been played in the past by many A-list Hollywood actresses.
They include Natalie Portman in the 2016 film Jackie, Katie Holmes in the 2011 mini-series The Kennedys, and Minka Kelly in the 2013 film The Butler.
Other actresses who have played Jackie Kennedy include Jaclyn Smith, Roma Downey, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Ginnifer Goodwin.
Now an Australian star is taking on the role.
A first photo of her appeared this week. Can you guess who it is?
The actress is 56-year-old Naomi Watts.
She is playing the late New Yorker in the Ryan Murphy project American Love Story, which premieres in February 2026.
Onassis was a writer, book editor, and socialite who served as the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of President John F. Kennedy.
Jackie died in 1994 at the age of 64 in New York City.
Blonde actress Watts sported a brown wig as she transformed into Jackie.
Watts was filming a scene in a park on Monday afternoon in New York City.
Also in the movie is Paul Kelly, who will play Jackie's son John F. Kennedy Jr.
Grace Gummer, who is playing Jackie's daughter Caroline Kennedy, was also seen playing in the park with two little girls that are playing Caroline's daughters Rose and Tatiana.
American Love Story will follow JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's whirlwind romance. The couple passed away in a plane crash in 1999 when she was 33 and he was 38.
Sarah Pidgeon, 29, is playing Carolyn.
JFK Jr's ex-girlfriend Daryl Hannah is being played by Dree Hemingway, 37, whose mother is actress Mariel Hemingway.
She gained attention playing the lead in director Sean Baker's feature Starlet. She has since become known for her high-profile fashion campaigns and her extensive work in independent film.
This comes after Watts said she wants women to 'not fear and dread menopause'.
The actress has launched a new campaign - which focuses on menopause solutions - for her wellness brand Stripes Beauty, and Naomi wants to remind women to 'hold [their] heads high' regardless of their age.
The movie star told People: 'Our minds, our experience, our sense of self, all of these things cumulatively add up to a bolder, wiser version of yourself, which makes you hotter than ever.
'And there's a play on words of course, because yes, we are fanning ourselves as we go into hot flashes. But it's also a time we should feel good about ourselves, hold our heads high and not fear and dread menopause like we have been taught by society and previous generations.'
Despite this, Naomi admits that her outlook hasn't always been so optimistic.
The actress said: 'I went into menopause or perimenopause super early and felt a lot of shame and no real sense of ways to communicate, not with my friends, my mother or even doctors.
'Women in this stage - perimenopause and beyond - have often felt left out. When our hormones stop functioning the way they used to, it's like we become redundant, expected to disappear. There's just a whole lot of negative messaging, which feels so out of date now. And as we know, we're more than our fertility. We are not invisible.'
Earlier this year, Naomi claimed that embracing ageing has actually helped her to become more successful in Hollywood.
The film star told Good Housekeeping magazine: 'I think the longer the life, the deeper it gets, and the roles tend to reflect that in terms of storytelling and playing all these dynamic women.