Catherine Deneuve and Gena Rowlands have signed on to voice characters in the English-language version of the French animated film "Persepolis" says Reuters.
Sony Pictures Classics will handle the North American release of the film, an adaptation of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel autobiographies.
Deneuve will voice the lead character's mother (as she does in the French version), and Rowlands will voice the her grandmother in the true tale of a precocious girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution.
