Jennifer Lopez will be able to call on her newly acquired parenting skills for her latest film role, where she plays a professional thief posing as a nanny, it was reported Tuesday.

The Daily Variety reported that Lopez had confirmed bagging a lead role in romantic comedy "The Governess," her second movie project since giving birth to twins earlier this year.

The 39-year-old music and acting diva will play a robber planning a bank heist who pretends to be a nanny for children of a wealthy widower, the report said. Filming gets underway later this year.

Lopez, whose last film was 2006's "El Cantante," is already working on another project, "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," due for release in 2009.