Brie Larson is set to play the first woman to run for president of the United States in a new biopic.

The Oscar-winning actor will star as Victoria Woodhull – a leader of the American women’s suffrage movement – in the film, which is fittingly titled Victoria Woodhull. Deadline reports that Larson will also produce the picture.

If you’ve never heard of Woodhull, her biography makes for impressive reading. Born to desperately poor parents in rural Ohio, she was allegedly sexually abused as a child and forced to leave school at 11.

Despite her lack of formal education, Woodhull was fiercely intelligent and held views lightyears ahead of her time, from supporting women’s sexual autonomy to campaigning for the right to divorce.

Brie Larson is playing a very important figure in feminist history