Academy Award-winning actress Catherine Zeta-Jones hopes to play “ugly duckling” Susan Boyle in a proposed film about the aspiring singer’s life.

Catherine is regularly voted one of the world’s most beautiful women and is married to Hollywood legend Michael Douglas. The dowdy 47-year-old Susan Boyle, on the other hand, became a YouTube sensation after footage of her singing “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables during an audition for Britain’s Got Talent became the most viewed YouTube clip of all time, earning more than 100million hits.

Dubbed the “hairy angel” by the British media because of her pre-makeover untamed hair and untamed eyebrows, Susan is a shy church volunteer from Scotland.

The Welsh-born Zeta-Jones, 39, has been inquiring about purchasing the film rights to the singer’s life story after Susan’s sensational appearance on Britain’s Got Talent three weeks ago.

A source on Britain’s Got Talent told the Daily Mail on Wednesday: “This is one of many requests we have had to play her [Miss Boyle], for movie deals and for stories of her life.”

The star of the box office smash Chicago is reportedly lobbying Oscar-winning film director James Cameron to direct the film.

“All these people are coming out and want to be associated with her. She is the biggest thing in the world.”

A spokesman for Susan declined to comment. Catherine’s publicist insists nothing has been planned just yet.