Jennifer Nettles Cast In ‘Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors’

Jennifer Nettles has been cast in the upcoming NBC TV movie Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors.

NBC revealed the casting announcement today, along with the news that Gerald McRaney and Ricky Schroder have also joined the star-studded cast.

Nettles will play Parton’s mother, Avie Lee Parton, in the movie, which is based on Parton’s upbringing.

The movie takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith, and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make Parton who she is today.

The film is set in the Tennessee Great Smokey Mountains in 1955. It is neither a biopic nor musical about Dolly’s whole life and performing career, but rather a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in her and her family’s life around the time she was 9 years old.

Dolly Parton is serving as executive producer on the movie.