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Sanaa Lathan is the latest actress to join the ensemble cast of Steven Soderbergh's drama 'Contagion' for Warner Bros. Pictures, reports Variety .
Already included in the film are Matt Damon, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hawkes, Jennifer Ehle, Elliott Gould, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Chin Han, and Josie Ho.
'Contagion' centers on a deadly virus that threatens the human population, with groups from around the world working together to contain the epidemic.
Lathan will play the spouse of Laurence Fishburne's character, the doctor who informs his wife of the epidemic, who inadvertently tells a friend and sparks pandemonium.
Lathan recently completed the HBO pilot 'Tilda' opposite Diane Keaton and recently came off the West End production of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' She previously starred in 'A Raisin in the Sun.'
The New York native currently voices the character Donna Tubbs on the Fox's animated series, 'The Cleveland Show.'
Contagion' will start filming next week in Chicago, after wrapping production in Hong Kong.