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The Queen's Gambit is a 2020 American coming-of-age period drama television miniseries based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. The title refers to the "Queen's Gambit", a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who created it with Allan Scott, who owns the rights to the book.
Diana Lanni, a New York chess player contemporary with Tevis who represented the United States at the 1982 Chess Olympiad in Lucerne, suggested she was at least in part the inspiration for the Beth Harmon character, and that her friend grandmaster Larry Kaufman was the inspiration for the book's Harry Beltik character.
A version of this story about “The Queen’s Gambit” first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine.Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy in Netflix’s breakout ...
Moses Ingram is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jolene in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020). For this role, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. [1]
The Queen's Gambit, based on the 1983 novel of the same by Walter Tevis, focuses on Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), a Cold War-era Kentucky girl who is sent to an orphanage after her mother passes.
Marielle Heller insists she never imagined that “The Queen’s Gambit” would be such a huge hit. “I had no idea how the chess was going to play out,” Heller, who plays Alma Wheatley, the ...
With a limited budget, filming a movie set in the 1990s was a challenge. [19] She cast Melissa McCarthy in the title role based on the actress's performance in the 2014 film St. Vincent . [ 21 ] They shot on location in bookstores where Israel had sold her forgeries, including the Argosy Bookstore and Westsider Rare & Used Books. [ 3 ]
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