The 65-year-old actress is to play an older woman who suddenly finds herself single for the first time in over 30 years after her husband has a mid-life crisis and leaves her in `The Viagra Diaries`.

The HBO programme is the new project from `Sex and the City` creator Darren Star and it is Goldie`s first major role since she appeared in the 2002 movie `The Banger Sisters` - for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance as former groupie Suzette.

The series will be Goldie`s first regular TV role since 1970.

Goldie`s daughter Kate Hudson recently praised her mother for looking even more beautiful now than she did when she was younger.

The 31-year-old actress - who is currently pregnant with her second child, but her first with fiancee Matt Bellamy - said: "She is just beautiful. She is out of control! OK, I am pregnant, but how is my own mother thinner than me? She looks better than I do, how is that possible?"
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