Actress Katie Holmes will reportedly play Ryan Reynolds' onscreen wife in the real-life Jewish refugee drama "Woman in Gold".

Actress Helen Mirren has already started filming the project, in which she stars as Maria Altmann, who spent four decades battling Austrian officials for the safe return of art stolen from her family by the Nazis during World War II.

Reynolds will portray Altmann's young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, and now Holmes has been added to the line-up as his wife, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Directed by Simon Curtis, the film went on floors in May.