Portman joins 'We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves'

Oscar-winner Natalie Portman is all set to make her TV debut with

HBO

miniseries "

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

".

Marta Kauffman will adapt the show from

Karen Joy Fowler

's bestselling novel, reported TheWrap.

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The series will follow Portman as Rosemary Cooke, a college student who was raised with a chimpanzee she thought of as her "twin sister."

Christopher Monger is writing the adaptation and will also executive produce alongside Portman and Kauffman, as well as Gideon Raff.

The series would mark Portman's first time starring on a TV series.

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