British actress Julia Ormond (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) is set to topline “Witches of East End,” a Lifetime pilot based on the 2011  Melissa de la Cruz bestseller about a family of witches. If picked up, the series will be Ormond’s first.

Deadline reports that Ormond will play Joanna Beauchamp, a small-town art teacher who when faced with a dangerous threat to her family reveals to her two adult daughters that they were born witches and that they must embrace their powers.

Ormond’s genre creds include the Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me and Jennifer Lynch’s twisted serial killer drama Surveillance. She will next be seen in Lynch’s Chained as the mother of a boy who is abducted by a homicidal maniac who forces him to keep his murder house tidy.