Adele to make acting debut in new Tom Ford movie
British singer-songwriter Adele is set to make her acting debut in a star-studded film directed by Tom Ford.
According to Deadline, the ‘Rolling in the Deep’ singer will star in Ford’s upcoming adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, Cry to Heaven. Ford has also written the screenplay.
Adele is reportedly slated to star alongside Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, and Paul Bettany.
Additionally, young Adolescence actor Owen Cooper will star, along with Daniel Quinn-Toye, Hunter Schafer, Josephine Thiesen, Thandiwe Newton, Theodore Pellerin, Daryl McCormack, Cassian Bilton, Hauk Hannemann, and Lux Pascal.
Things aren’t quite moving yet; the project is currently in pre-production in London and Rome. Principal photography should begin in January. The movie is slated for an anticipated autumn 2026 release.
Cry To Heaven is set in 18th-century Italy. It follows a pair of unlikely collaborators trying to succeed in the world of opera: a Venetian noble and a castrated singer from Calabria.
Ford will be self-financing the film. The former Gucci and YSL creative director sold his fashion label to The Estée Lauder Companies for $2.8 billion in 2023.
He will reunite with Taylor-Johnson on the project, with whom he last worked on Nocturnal Animals. Additionally, he will reunite with Firth, who starred in the critically acclaimed Ford movie A Single Man previously.
Adele’s last studio album, 30, was released on November 19th, 2021. Her most recent live music release is the live album Weekends with Adele Live in Las Vegas, which came out in February 2025.
Adele has had her eye on acting for some time. She had previously been rumoured to make her acting debut in The Death and Life of John F Donovan. “I’m sure I’ll get some flak for this, but I actually would like to act after working with Xavier,” she said at the time. “I would be in a film for him, definitely.” However, she never appeared in the final cut of the film.
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