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(CNN)"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" has reportedly found its star.According to the Hollywood Reporter, British actress Naomi Ackie has been chosen to play the late singer Whitney Houston in the planned biopic."We spent the better part of the last year in an exhaustive search for an actress who could embody Whitney Houston," the film's director Stella Meghie told the publication. "Naomi Ackie impressed us at every stage of the process.

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