French fib wins Hollywood film role

A seven-year-old girl has landed a part in the film The Da Vinci Code after lying to a Hollywood director about being able to speak French. Daisy Doidge-Hill also told Ron Howard that her father was French, in fact he had only worked on a cross-Channel ferry to France. Now the young actress from Falmouth, Cornwall, will star alongside Tom Hanks, Sir Ian McKellen and Audrey Tautou in the film based on Dan Brown`s best-selling novel. Daisy told Howard, who directed hits like A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13, a French phrase she had learned in the car on the way to the audition. [More]