Lindsay Lohan in Talks for Liz Taylor Role

By Alan Duke, CNN

LOS ANGELES Lindsay Lohans probation should end next month, clearing the way for the actress to revive her acting career possibly playing Elizabeth Taylor in a made-for-TV movie.

Lohan appears in court Wednesday for a judge to check her progress, but shes gotten glowing probation reports for the last two months.

Lohans on the home stretch to completing her 480 hours of community service most of it cleaning up at the Los Angeles County morgue on schedule next month, her publicist Steve Honig said.

Once shes done, Lohan will be released from the strict probation requirements that started five years ago after two drunk driving convictions. She should have finished two years ago, but it was extended after several probation violations, including missed counseling sessions, failed drug and alcohol tests and a shoplifting conviction.

Stints in jail and court-ordered rehab cost Lohan acting jobs, but the light at the end of the strict probation tunnel appears in sight for Lohan.

Lohan travels to New York next week to host NBCs Saturday Night Live on March 3. Its her fourth time hosting the show, but the first since her legal troubles began in 2007.

She appears close to signing a deal to play the lead in a Lifetime network movie about legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died last year.

Honig acknowledged negotiations are underway, but nothing has been signed.

Although just 25, Lohan has deep knowledge of Hollywoods golden age and has a high regard for its icons, he said. She would really embrace the role of Taylor, he said.

The sales success of her nude photo spread in Playboy magazine, which hit news stands in December, is evidence that Lohans star power survived her legal! trouble s.

Lohan was reportedly paid nearly $1 million to pose for the photos taken in a style reminiscent of the nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe that graced the debut issue of Playboy in 1953.

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