Flockhart gets back on the big screen

Former Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart has signed up to take for her first major film role since the end of her television show.

The svelte actress, girlfriend of Harrison Ford, will play a nurse in an independent Spanish feature called Fragile.

In the movie, Flockhart's character works to uncover the mystery behind strange attacks on the desolate children's hospital where she works.

The film will begin shooting in Barcelona at the end of the month