Zendaya is set to star as Ronnie Spector in a new biopic about the Ronettes singer from filmmaker Barry Jenkins (Moonlight). The film is titled Be My Baby and is based on the memoir Be My Baby: How I ...

Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and “Walking in the Rain” as the leader of the girl group the Ronettes, has died ...

A24 has tapped Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins to direct Be My Baby, the Zendaya-starring biopic of singer Ronnie Spector. The film has been in development since 2020, with Spector originally ...

Zendaya will star as legendary singer Ronnie Spector in a forthcoming A24 film about her life directed by Barry Jenkins and written by Dave Kajganich (A Bigger Splash, Suspiria). Per Deadline, the ...

Zendaya has another big project in the works: She’s about to play the late Ronnie Spector, lead singer of the Ronettes, in an upcoming biopic. Deadline reported in March 2025 that Zendaya has been ...

It’s almost easy to imagine an awards campaign already: Zendaya, even at 28, is overdue for recognition, and playing Spector will allow her to presumably sing as well – something Chalamet leaned on ...

Photos: Kyusung Gong / ©A.M.P.A.S., Trae Patton ©A.M.P.A.S. The premise of Zendaya portraying Ronnie Spector in a biopic has been floating around for nearly a half-decade at this point, but it’s ...

Zendaya is A24's new babygirl. The actress/producer will lead Oscar winner Barry Jenkins' Ronnie Spector biographical drama "Be My Baby" for A24. This is Zendaya's third project with the studio after ...

Veronica Yvette Greenfield (née Bennett, formerly Spector; August 10, 1943 – January 12, 2022) was an American singer who co-founded and fronted the girl group the Ronettes. She is sometimes called ...

Spector died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer, her family said. Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock ‘n’ roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as “Be My Baby,” “Baby I Love You” and ...

(Reuters) -Ronnie Spector, the pioneering lead singer of the 1960s American "girl group" the Ronettes, whose vocals graced such hits as "Be My Baby" and "Baby, I Love You," has died at the age of 78, ...