Shonda Rhimes’s Fictionalized Saga of Socialite Scammer Anna Delvey Moves Forward

Anna Delvey, née Sorokin, the
Russian-born con artist who tricked the top tier of New York City’s
social set into funding her lavish lifestyle by telling them she
was trying to jumpstart a “Soho House-ish” art foundation, is
coming to Netflix courtesy of Shonda Rhimes. Now, the cast of the
10-episode limited series, Inventing Anna, has been
announced, and it looks
like a host of bold-faced names are set to tell the tale of the
“socialite scammer.”  

Based on the viral
New
York story
by Jessica Pressler, the show will
star Anna Chlumsky as a reporter, with the series focusing on her
effort to get to the bottom of the unbelievable true story.
Chlumsky is a six-time Emmy award nominee for Best Supporting
Actress for her role as frazzled political operative Amy on
HBO’s Veep.

Cherubic actress Julia Garner
will play the all-important title role. Garner just won an Emmy for
her role on the Netflix show Ozark, and played a coy teenager tangled up in the
web of lies spun by her older boyfriend (who was also a Soviet spy)
in The
Americans.

Other cast members
include Orange Is the New
Black’s Laverne Cox, as
the celebrity trainer Kacy Duke, who Anna enlisted as part of her
extravagant lifestyle. The Bold Type’s Alexis Floyd will play Neff, the concierge
at the hotel in Manhattan where Delvey shacked up. 

Finally, Katie Lowes, an alum of
Rhimes’s Scandal, will play the important role of Rachel
Deloache Williams, who in real life was a photo editor at
Vanity Fair
who got ensnared in
Delvey’s grift, ending
up stranded in Marrakech having charged tens of thousands of
dollars to her personal and company credit cards.

Williams was a key witness in
the month-long trial that resulted in Delvey being sentenced to 4
to 12 years in prison. In July, Williams published her own memoir
of her time as Anna’s companion, My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake
Heiress, and has been
making the rounds on a promotional media circuit. 

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