Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan – best-known for his role as Denny Duquette in the popular TV medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy – will play Joe DiMaggio in Lifetime’s upcoming mini-series, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Based on J. Randy Taraborrelli’s 2009 biography, the biopic’s current line-up includes Kelli Garner (as Marilyn), Susan Sarandon (as her mother, Gladys), and Emily Watson (as her legal guardian, Grace McKee.)