Lindsay Lohan will appear in two movies that deal with an assassination; playing a groupie attached to John Lennon in Chapter 27 and an activist in a fictionalized account of the killing of Robert F. Kennedy.
This sentence contains an error in punctuation: a semicolon is used in place of a comma.
A semicolon should only be used to separate two independent clauses. This sentence contains one independent clause and a participial phrase. A partcipial phrase should be separated from an independent clause by a comma.
Use a semicolon alone when two independent clauses are related to each other ("None of my friends wanted to see that band; I went to the concert alone.") or with a conjunctive adverb (however, moreover, therefore, consequently, otherwise, nevertheless, thus) to form a transition between two independent clauses ("None of my friends wanted to see that band; therefore, I went to the concert alone.")
This is how the sentence should be punctuated:
Lindsay Lohan will appear in two movies that deal with an assassination, playing a groupie attached to John Lennon in Chapter 27 and an activist in a fictionalized account of the killing of Robert F. Kennedy.
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