Following the success of her album,
"The Emancipation of Mimi", Mariah is rumored to be picking up a role in a new film slated to start shooting in Tennessee and New Mexico this spring.
Mariah has already signed on to play a waitress, who along with her two brothers, scours the south in seek of their estranged father. Quite a jump from her last starring role, where she honed her acting skills by playing a struggling artist trying to make it in the hip-hop world, only to find herself in love with her producer reported E-Online.Com.