Anticipation is building on Grammy-winning songstress Toni Braxton’s biopic on Lifetime.
Entitled “Un-Break My Heart,” which is her biggest blockbuster solo hit, Braxton is serving as an executive producer on the film that will star new actress and model Alexis “Lex Scott” Davis as Braxton.
Let’s take a look at the women who will be playing Toni and Tamar Braxton, Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds and other key players in the Braxton musical dynasty.
Davis, 24, has some things going for her other than her obvious physical beautiy. She is a Baltimore native, which is a nice coincidence because Toni Braxton hails from Maryland.
Davis is also the niece of superproducer Rico Love, the brains behind the Dungeon Family, which helped to send the career of legendary group OutKast into the stratosphere.
What else do we know about Davis? She once attended prestigious Drexel University as a dance and physical therapy major before leaving in 2013 and moving to New York’s Manhattan borough to study at New York Film Academy.
Davis had recently moved to the West Coast in her aspiration to achieve movie stardom in Los Angeles. This role as Toni Braxton may be the vehicle that catapults her towards her dreams.
She will definitely find fame if she is able to accurately convey Braxton’s volatile emotional times during her meteoric rise and precipitous fall in the music industry, replete with her bouts with bankruptcy, health issues and struggles with her child’s sickness.
Reflexively, most will believe that the chanteuse was handed her opportunities rather than earning them on her own. She posted a message from her Uncle Rico to her Instagram with a caption to shut down the haters who believe she was given anything in life.
Take a look at other enticing photos of Davis before moving onto the other major characters in the upcoming movie:
The woman charged with Tamar Braxton’s role in the upcoming biopic is Actress Tiffany Hines, who made her bones in Hollywood from the hit show “Devious Maids” and, well, “Bones.”
Meanwhile, Gavin Houston, who stars on “The Haves And The Have Nots,” will play Toni’s longtime friend and collaborator Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds.
Also joining the cast is Skye P. Marshall as Towanda Braxton, actress Debbie Morgan as Toni Braxton’s mother Evelyn Braxton and actress LaToya Franklyn is set to star as Trina Braxton.
There is no one cast to play Traci Braxton at press time.
Photos: Lex Smith Instagram; Gavin Houston Instagram; Tiffany Hines Instagam
