Toni Braxton to Star in Lifetime Original Movie Based on Memoir UN-BREAK MY HEART

Lifetime has green lit the original movie UN-BREAK MY HEART. Based on Grammy(R) Award-winning singer Toni Braxton's popular memoir, Un-Break My Heart is the authorized LIFE STORY of the wildly talented artist, who has fought through a severe chronic illness, financial troubles and divorce while navigating her son's autism and family struggles.

Un-Break My Heart is the never-before-told story of the measures Braxton took to make herself and her family whole again, serving as an inspiration to people around the world. Braxton will executive produce and appear in the film, which begins production later this year.

Un-Break My Heart is also executive produced by Craig Baumgarten (Twist of Faith), Erik Kritzer (The Runaround) and Marcus Grant, written by Susan McMartin (Mom, Two and a Half Men) and produced by Link Entertainment. Vondie Curtis-Hall (Abducted: The Carlina White Story) will direct.

Braxton was among the Grammy Award-winning artists to join the roster of "Special Guest Star" vocalists in the smash hit Broadway musical After Midnight. The distinctive, sultry vocals of the six-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist has been CELEBRATED internationally since the release of her self-titled debut album in 1993. The album sold over 10 million copies and garnered Toni's first GRAMMY AWARDS for Best New Artist and Best Female R&B Vocal ("Another Sad Love Song"). Toni's second Best Female R&B Vocal Grammy came the following year for "Breathe Again." Her second album, Secrets, arrived in 1996 selling over 15 million copies worldwide. At the 1997 Grammy Awards, Toni became the second woman in history to win Best Female Pop Vocal and Best Female R&B Vocal in the same year for "Un-break My Heart" and "You're Makin' Me High," respectively. She returned to the Grammy podium in 2001 to claim another Best Female R&B Vocal award for "He Wasn't Man Enough" from the double-platinum album The Heat. In recent years, Toni's acting career blossomed with roles on Broadway in Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and Aida, as well a dramatic turn in the Lifetime movie "Twist of Faith."

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