Camilla Luddington to Play Kate Middleton in TV Movie

By Jessica Derschowitz

February 3, 2011 / 5:07 PM / CBS News

Kate Middleton poses for photographs on Nov. 16, 2010, in the State Apartments of St. James Palace in London. Getty

NEW YORK (CBS) Camilla Luddington will be playing Kate Middleton in a TV movie about her wedding to Prince William.

The British actress will portray the future princess in the Lifetime movie "William & Kate," which is expected to air in time for the actual April 29 affair.

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She will join New Zealand-born actor Nico Evers-Swindell, who will play Prince William, and Ben Cross, who's been cast as Prince Charles.

Luddington has had small parts on "Days of Our Lives" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." She'll appear next in the Hallmark Channel film "Accidentally In Love."

Coincidently, People magazine reports, the actress is from the British county of Berkshire, the same one that Middleton has called home.