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5 March 2012 - 14:40 AMT

Emmy Rossum joins Emma Thompson in “Beautiful Creatures” flick

Emmy Rossum is the latest actress to join the cast of supernatural love story Beautiful Creatures, Belfast Telegraph reported.

The Mystic River star – who has most recently been seen on the small screen in US TV show Shameless – will play a young witch in the movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog.

She joins Viola Davis and Emma Thompson in the flick.

The film is about a pair of star-crossed teenagers, played by relative newcomers Jack O'Connell and Alice Englert, who are dealing with a curse that has hung over the girl's family for generations.

Emmy's character is Ridley, the cousin of the girl, who becomes a dark witch on her 16th birthday.

Filming will begin in and around New Orleans this spring.