Celebrity Chef Julia Childś life as a chef and American spy working as a researcher in Sri Lanka to be featured as a dramedy

ABC Signature Studios has announced that it will be combining Celebrity Chef Julia Child's success as a French chef and her time as an American spy to create an hourlong dramedy series.

According to the Architectural Digest, the premise of the fictional show is that after Child has already received success as a chef, the CIA decides to tap her celebrity status and makes her become a covert operative.

Julia Child filming a 1964 promo for The French Chef at the Cambridge Gas and Electric Kitchen. PIc courtesy Radcliff Institute.

However, Child who passed away 13 years ago at the age of almost 92 (the chef would have been 105 years old this month), had many other sides to her, especially considering she didn't take up cooking until her mid-30s.

For example: Child, believe it or not, worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, during World War II. And no, she wasn't anyone's cook. Due to her education and work ethic, Child was given the top-secret position of researcher and worked in Sri Lanka and China (where she eventually met her husband, who would introduce her to French cuisine).

Facts about Julia Child:

 Her husband helped build her a "Julia Child"–size kitchen

Julia Child was 6'2" and wore a size 12 shoe. She played basketball at Smith College (and apparently she was pretty good, too!). Taking into consideration her height, her husband, Paul Cushing Child, specially built shelves and set up hooks in their Cambridge, Massachusetts, kitchen, making sure all of the pots and pans were easily reachable for her as she cooked.

2. One of her earliest "cooking" successes is still used by the government today

She was a typist and then a top-secret researcher for the OSS, but one of her biggest projects did involve mixing ingredients together: She helped develop a shark repellant that keeps the creatures from approaching, and thus setting off, underwater explosives. It's still in use today.

3. She has a rose named after her, and yes, it has a connection to the kitchen

Lots of celebrities have flowers named after them, but the celebrity chef chose the Julia Child rose herself. It is, unsurprisingly, butter-colored (while filming her Baking With Julia series alone, she used 753 pounds of the stuff) and is a rather common flower used in gardens and on table settings. (Need an example? Head to fellow chef Ina Garten's Instagram.) In the United Kingdom, though, they don't call it the Julia Child rose; instead it goes by another name: the Absolutely Fabulous rose, named after the television show.

4. She had a really, really good sense of humor

In 1978, Dan Aykroyd dressed up as the celebrity chef for a skit on Saturday Night Live; in one scene, the Child character cuts off a finger, suffering massive blood loss, but insists on finishing her cooking show. Apparently, the good-natured Child found it hysterical: She kept a videotape of the show under the television in her kitchen. She also appreciated incorporating a bit of performance art into her cooking for a laugh: Child used an unnecessarily huge saber to carve chicken and wore a helmet and fired a popgun to bring down small birds to roast.

5. After 40 years, she donated both her house and kitchen to two separate places

Child and her husband (until his death) lived in a large, gray clapboard house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1961 to 2001. The house's kitchen was even transformed into a television set, which Child used for three of her cooking shows. Three years before her death, she donated her home in its entirety—with the exception of her kitchen, which went to the Smithsonian Institute—to Smith College.

6. But her house in the South of France is still available to rent!

After living in France from 1948 to 1956, Child and her husband swore to return as often as they could. To stay true to this promise, they built La Pitchoune ("The Little One"), a 1,500-square-foot cottage in Provence. The house was on the open market for the first time in 2015 but was quickly purchased by a Colorado couple who now rent the three-bedroom home on Airbnb, with the exception of April through June, and September through October; those months are open to renters. As of the time of sale in 2015, the kitchen was almost entirely intact, the way Child left i