According to multiple reports, Oprah Winfrey is set to portray late comedian Richard Pryor’s grandmother in an upcoming biopic.

Pryor was raised by his grandmother, Marie Carter, a madam of a brothel in his birth place of Peoria, Illinois. Pryor’s mother, Gertrude L. Thomas, was also a prostitute in his grandmother’s brothel.

Check out a picture posted to Winfrey’s Instagram below, alongside director Lee Daniels, and Mike Epps who is set to play Richard Pryor in the upcoming film.

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