'Secretariat' wins three for cast

October 04, 2009 Former senator Fred Thompson is making his return to the chamber of feature acting, joining A.J. Michalka and Kevin Connolly in Disney's "Secretariat," the story of the horse that won the 1973 Triple Crown. Margo Martindale, Eric Lange and Drew Roy also have joined the cast of the Randall Wallace-directed picture that stars Diane Lane as the horse's owner, Penny Tweedy, the housewife who broke though a gender barrier to usher Secretariat to greatness. Martindale ("Mercy") will play a veteran executive secretary who assists Lane through a dark time, Lange ("Lost") will portray real-life sportswriter Andy Beyer, and Roy ("Hannah Montana") will play Thompson's son.

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