When Kate Winslet set out to try and make a film about the photographer Lee Miller, she knew it couldn't show everything. "She lived such a vast life, it would have been impossible to make a film about all of it,

When Kate Winslet stumbled upon the extraordinary story of Lee Miller she didn’t want to let go. Miller was an American photographer who became a correspondent for British Vogue during the Second World War,

Lee Miller, a Poughkeepsie native and acclaimed World War II photographer, is the focus of 'Lee,' starring Kate Winslet, which premieres Sept. 27.

In addition to Winslet as Miller, the cast includes Alexander Skarsgård as Roland Penrose, Andy Samberg as Life magazine photographer David Scherman, and Marion Cotillard as Solange d’Ayen, Miller’s friend and fashion editor of French Vogue.

In the photo, Lee Miller sits nude in a bathtub. Positioned at the corner of the tub, as if looking over Miller’s shoulder, is a picture of the green-tiled bathroom’s previous owner:

In a new biopic starring Kate Winslet, Miller's many lives—as an artist, model, muse, cook and war correspondent—need little embellishment