Boy George, pictured in January in London, England, is now a DJ. (Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

The BBC is producing a drama about ex-Culture Club frontman Boy George, chronicling his rise from a cloakroom attendant to '80s icon.

Worried About The Boy stars newcomer Douglas Booth as the singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd.

"[The movie] will be an evocative and visually enticing drama about one of our most iconic British pop stars," said BBC drama commissioner Ben Stephenson on BBC News. Filming begins in March but there's no word yet on its air date.

Born in southeast London, O'Dowd — with his penchant for makeup, vibrant clothes and sporting an androgynous look — would come to sing for Culture Club whose string of hits include Karma Chameleon, I'll Tumble 4 Ya, Time (Clock of the Heart) and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?

The band, which also comprised Mikey Craig (guitar), Roy Hay (keyboards) and Jon Moss (drums, percussion), had 10 Top-40 hits in the U.S. from 1982 to 1986, when the band dissolved.

At that time Boy George was also battling heroin addiction. By the 1990s, he re-launched himself as a successful DJ.

The band reunited between 1998 and 2002.

O'Dowd hit the headlines over the past few years due to his brushes with the law.

In 2006, he was sentenced community service in the U.S. for falsely reporting a burglary at his apartment in New York City, and last year he served four months in prison for assault and false imprisonment.