Carrie Underwood is hitting the big screen! Ottawa Senator centre, Mike Fisher’s fiancée has scored the supporting role in Soul Surfer, the story of a 19-year-old champion surfer Bethany Hamilton, who has defied all odds to compete and win professional championships after losing her arm in a shark attack at age 13. Carrie will play Sarah Hill, a church youth leader. The movie is filming this month in Hawaii, according to reports. Soul Surfer also stars Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, AnnaSophia Robb, Lorraine Nicholson and Kevin Sorbo. Carrie's debut appearance on the CBS comedy, How I Met Your Mother, is set to air next month.

The L.A. County Coroner announced that 32 year-old Brittany Murphy died from multiple drug intoxication, pneumonia and "iron deficiency anemia" in what has been deemed an accidental death. Brittany was found unresponsive in her home on December 20th, where she was staying with her husband Simon Monjack and her mother Sharon Murphy. Both have stated that they believed Brittany's death was due to a congenital heart murmur and denied rumors that the actress used drugs or suffered from an eating disorder. They also said that she'd been suffering from laryngitis and flu-like symptoms in the days before her death. The drugs found in Brittany’s system were not illegal, explaining, "It was only prescription and over-the-counter meds." The most unfortunate part is the coroner says the death was preventable. Brittany had a bad case of pneumonia and was self-medicating when she should have been seeing a doctor.