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Beth Harmon is orphaned at age eight when her mother dies in a car crash. Growing up in an orphanage in Kentucky, she is taught chess by the custodian Mr. Shaibel, and soon becomes a chess prodigy. While at the orphanage, she struggles with an addiction to tranquilizers. In her teens she is adopted and begins her rapid rise in the chess world ...
Chloe Pirrie as Alice Harmon, Beth's deceased mother (seen only in flashbacks) who earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Cornell University before experiencing a downward spiral in her mental health Akemnji Ndifornyen as Mr. Fergusson, the orderly at Methuen, who among other roles administers state-mandated pills to the girls
Latinx actors held just 2.3 percent of top theatrical film acting roles in ... You probably recognize Argentinian-British actress Anya as chess prodigy Beth Harmon from Netflix's The Queen's ...
The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera, created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS.Debuting on March 23, 1987, [1] John McCook (Eric Forrester) and Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan) are the two longest-running cast members, each having appeared since the first episode.
Anya Taylor-Joy may be the star of Netflix’s wildly successful limited series, The Queen’s Gambit, playing Beth Harmon in the coming-of-age drama about a chess prodigy, but it’s director ...
For Netflix’s limited series, The Queen’s Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy felt compelled to tell the story of Beth Harmon, a young chess prodigy with a sheltered past who struggles with an addiction ...
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon.A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism.
UPDATED with settlement, 1:25 PM: Netflix has settled the $5 million lawsuit filed against the streamer over its hit limited The Queen’s Gambit. Terms of the settlement reached today weren’t ...