MUMBAI: French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been signed to appear in a new Woody Allen film that is due to roll this summer in Paris.

The film that also stars French Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, has Hollywood actors Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams in the cast.

Bruni-Sarkozy‘s role in the film is expected to be announced later this week.

Allen, one of America‘s most prolific film writers and directors, said last year that he would like to use the former supermodel in one of his films but then he did not have a story for her.

Bruni-Sarkozy, 42, who married French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, appeared briefly on the big screen as herself in Robert Altman‘s 1994 fashion satire Pret-a-Porter. She is also a successful singer-songwriter with a string of albums.

Allen, who has made a film almost every year since 1971, won an Oscar for his film Annie Hall starring Diane Keaton.