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NBC has cast Alyvia Lind as a young Dolly Parton for upcoming TV movie "Coat of Many Colors". The 69-year-old singer/actress herself dropped the news to the child actress, saying, "What we're really here to do is to announce that you have been chosen to play little Dolly in the movie." Lind immediately covered her mouth as she was both surprised and happy to land the role.

Lind had a role in Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig's Lifetime movie "A Deadly Adoption". The young star who will turn 8 on July 27 has also appeared on "Masters of Sex" and "Transparent".

"Coat of Many Colors", which is titled after Parton's 1971 autobiographical song, is billed as a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in Parton and her family's life around the time she was 9 years old.

The TV movie is set in the Tennessee Great Smokey Mountains in 1955 and will take viewers 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 Dolly who she is today."

Parton is executive producing the project along with Sam Haskell and Pamela K. Long, who also wrote the script. It's unknown if Parton will appear in the TV movie or not.