Facts of Life star Mindy Cohn to play lesbian role

Mindy Cohn, best known for her starring role on the long-running sitcom The Facts of Life, will play a lesbian in the independent film Swing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the film, to be directed by Martin Guigui, she will play Martha, a bass player devoted to her music who grows upset that her friend Anthony splits his time between their band and his job in his father's grocery store. Their relationship is further strained by Anthony's insistence that an angel has entered his life.