New Role For Calista

Petite actress Calista Flockhart is putting her Ally McBeal heartbreak behind her - to star as a wannabe actress in a new film about the Mafia.

McBeal has accepted the role in Providence (no relation to the t.v. series), based on a real-life sting operation in Providence, Rhode Island that caught numerous mobsters.

Flockhart has been dating K-19 star Harrison Ford, who is 22 years her senior.

Her long-running off-beat legal show was cancelled earlier this year due to falling ratings.