Miranda Hart bags her biggest Hollywood role yet for Disney's Nutcracker

Miranda Hart has landed her biggest Hollywood role yet – in the forthcoming live-action adaptation of The Nutcracker from Disney.

She’ll join Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy and Morgan Freeman on the bill so far, playing the role of Dew Drop, a ‘comedic fairy’, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

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Knightley will be playing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy, while ballerina Misty Copeland will also star.

‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’, to give it its full title, will adapt ETA Hoffman’s famous story ‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King’ from 1816.

Tchaikovsky then adapted the story in his libretto for the ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ in 1892.

It will tell the story of Clara (played by Foy), a young girl who on the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve is transported to a magical world, which is in the midst of war between an gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.

Directing will be Lasse Hallström, helmsman of movies like ‘Chocolat’, ‘The Cider House Rules’ and ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’.

It’s not the first time that Disney has adapted the story, using it for the basis of its film ‘Fantasia’ in 1940.

The role is another step in Hollywood for the ‘Call The Midwife’ star.

She stole the show with her role in ‘Spy’ last year, appearing opposite Jason Statham and Melissa McCarthy in the espionage comedy.

Hart is also set to appear in a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Canterville Ghost’, due out next year and also starring Freddie Highmore, Hugh Laurie, Toby Jones, Imelda Staunton and Stephen Fry.