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"Pan" youngster making English-language debut
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-04-27 16:34
LOS ANGELES- Spanish youngster Ivana Baquero, the plucky heroine at the heart of "Pan's Labyrinth," has signed on for her first English-language role.

The 12-year-old actress will play the title role in "The New Daughter," a film based on a short story by noted horror-thriller writer John Connolly.

The Gold Circle Films project follows a single dad who has moved his two children to a remote farm where a strange mound in the surrounding fields appears to be the key to his daughter's increasingly ominous behavior.

The project is out to directors.

Baquero won a Goya Award, Spain's version of the Oscars, for her performance in "Pan."