Thandie Newton is to step away from the camera to try her hand at writing screenplays.
The Crash star is following in her writer husband Ol Parker's footsteps by putting pen to paper for her first big screen project.
And Newton insists she could be tempted to become a full-time writer - because the work schedule suits her busy lifestyle as a mom of two.
She says of her first movie, "It's a comedy feature film. It's been really nice to do that: be at home, be around the kids.
"It's just a really nice lifestyle - I've been doing other, smaller jobs to supplement it and so on.
"Now I see why Ol's been doing it for so long, it's absolutely great."
Although she made her film debut in 1991 with Flirting it was her role in Mission Impossible II that announced her arrival on the global film stage.
Over recent years she has moved between blockbuster work on The Chronicles of Riddick to the ore critical applauded movies such as Crash, for which she won a Bafta for her performance.
The last twelve months have been busy for the actress as she appeared in George Bush biopic W, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Guy Ritchie's last movie RocknRolla.
She is back on the big screen later this year with disaster movie 2012.
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