Sean Penn to Play Andrew Jackson in HBO Miniseries

Sean Penn is heading to the White House. The Oscar winner has signed on to play Andrew Jackson in the HBO and Lionsgate miniseries adaptation of “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the seventh U.S. president. Orphaned after his mother’s death during the Revolutionary War, Jackson was a self-made man, a western outsider, a violent warrior and a beloved general who became the...
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