Inventing Anna: Release Date and Everything We Know About The New Shonda Rhimes Series

The creator of 'The Bridgertons' and 'Grey's Anatomy' returns to 'streaming' with a surprising true story starring Julia Garner and Anna Chlumsky.

It seems that the series that bears the stamp of Shonda Rhimes is destined to become a success, and now it is the turn of ‘Inventing Anna‘. Shondaland’s new project on Netflix will arrive in 2022 with a story based on a real scandal that affected the bulging pockets of the New York elite. It will star Emmy winner Julia Garner seen in “Ozark” and the movie “The Assistant“.

Inventing Anna

After making history with ‘ Grey’s Anatomy ‘, one of the best medical series in the history of television and bursting the ‘streaming’ with the romantic ‘The Bridgertons‘ one of the latest Netflix phenomena, Rhimes returns to the loaded with another addictive story loaded with mystery. We collect here everything we know about its release date, synopsis and cast. We will be attentive to all the news!

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Inventing Anna: Story

The series is inspired by an article published in New York Magazine and entitled: “How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People”. Its author Jessica Pressler who is also a producer on ‘Inventing Anna’, released an absolutely fascinating story to the world and also absolutely real.

The story, as reported by Netflix, follows “a journalist with much to prove, Vivian (Anna Chlumsky) who investigates the case of Anna Delvey (Julia Garner) the legendary German heiress of Instagram, who stole the hearts of the social landscape. from New York … and her money too. But is Anna the biggest con artist in New York, or is she just the new portrait of the American dream? Anna and the journalist form a dark and fun love-hate bond as Anna awaits trial, and the reporter fights against time to answer the biggest question in New York society: who is Anna Delvey?

Who is Anna Dlevey?

Inventing Anna is the story of Anna Delvey who is really called Anna Sorokin who managed to fool some of the richest people in New York into thinking that she was a billionaire heiress to a prestigious German family. Sorokin said he had a trust fund of $ 60 million, and that was enough for him to manage to hire a private jet, receive invitations to the most exclusive parties in the city and live in a luxury hotel in New York. In reality Anna did not have millions of dollars and was not the heir to a powerful family, and she was eventually caught up in her own deception and arrested when her web of lies was discovered.

How is it that Anna Delvey managed to fool so many people? She knew exactly what to say, what to wear and how to act to appear to be someone different, plus she took advantage of the superficiality of the environment in which she wanted to move to her advantage, and that is exactly what we are going to see in the series.

Inventing Anna: Cast

The cast is headed by Anna Chlumsky who plays journalist Vivian, and we’ve seen her previously in the fun multi award winning ‘Veep’. Although some will also remember her being just a girl in the classic ‘My girl’, one of those movies to cry a lot. She is accompanied as the protagonist by Julia Garner who plays the mysterious heiress Anna Delvey. Garner won an Emmy Award for her performance in ‘Ozark‘ also on Netflix, and we’ve recently seen her shine in the drama ‘The Assistant’.

The cast is completed by Arian Moayed (‘Succession’), Alexis Floyd (The Bold Type), Anders Holm (Best … single), Terry Kinney (Billions), Katie Lowes (‘Scandal) Jeff Perry (‘Scandal’), Anna Deavere Smith (Here and Now) and Laverne Cox (Orange is the new black).

Inventing Anna: Trailer

The first trailer has just been released and reveals Julia Garner as Anna Delvey, first conquering the New York social scene and eventually being taken to prison, where her “memory photo” is taken and she confesses that her character is a work of art, and maybe it was, until someone discovered the cracks in its facade.