Los Angeles, March 3 – Hollywood actress Kaley Cuoco has expressed her desire to portray Dolly Parton in a biopic. The star of "The Big Bang Theory," 40, is "in love" with the country music icon and has heard many positive things about her.
Recently, her co-star Sam Claflin suggested that she could play Parton one day, and she replied, "Oh yes! That's a great idea. I'm a huge admirer of her, and I've heard so many wonderful things about her." According to "Female First UK."
During an interview with NME, she said, "You know what I admire about her? She and her husband live in separate houses. I know he's passed away, but she always talked about that, they were together forever, and I think that's amazing. Just living in different homes. That's fantastic! Let's have dinner, let's go."
As per "Female First UK," Dolly and her late husband Carl Dean, who died in March 2025 at the age of 82, were married for 58 years and largely kept their relationship out of the public eye.
Earlier this year, Amanda Seyfried admitted that she would love to play Dolly one day. Speaking to Deadline, she said, "Dolly Parton is one of the best people in the world. It would be a great opportunity to portray her."
In 2022, Dolly revealed that she was in talks to turn her life story into a biopic, and she is keen for Kristin Chenoweth to play her.
Appearing on the Mr. Nashville Talks podcast, she said, "We were discussing doing my Broadway musical, and we were really far ahead of that. Then COVID hit, and that changed my mind about a lot of things. I do intend to be on Broadway someday, but I'm thinking about doing my life story as a feature film. Perhaps even a musical feature, so we're in talks about that. I love Kristin Chenoweth."
"She's just absolutely fantastic. I think she would be the ideal person to do that... We'd probably have to have, as long as my career has been, like a younger Dolly and a middle-aged Dolly, and then the older one," she added.