Katie Holmes will play Jacqueline Kennedy in a US TV mini-series based on the life of revered US President John F. Kennedy, producers said on Wednesday. Holmes, 31, who is married to Tom Cruise and appeared in the 2005 movie “Batman Begins,” will be joined by “Little Miss Sunshine” star Greg Kinnear as John F. Kennedy in the eight-hour series due to be broadcast on cable channel History in 2011. British actor Tom Wilkinson will play ambassador Joe Kennedy Sr., the family patriarch, and Canadian actor Barry Pepper will take the role of JFK's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.