![]() In real life, Anna even stayed on Williams’ couch despite owing her that much money. Anna never pays her despite much badgering. In the series, Williams agonises over how to clear the debt on her work credit card, and it is eventually pardoned by AmEx. The most elusive of her sources is Rachel (Katie Lowes) is based on the real-life former friend of Sorokin’s, Rachel Deloache Williams, who really did get swindled out of $62,000 on a holiday trip with Sorokin. Through her investigation, Kent pieces together Anna’s story through the testimony of her friends, ex-boyfriend and acquaintances. In 2015, she published the New York Magazine article that would become the basis for the film Hustlers, which got her a nomination for National Magazine Award the following year. The show paints her as a disgraced journalist, and although she had in fact misreported a story in 2014, she wasn’t as discredited as the show paints her to be. Her untraceable accent is a weird combination of influences from all these places.Ī lot of details are magnified or amalgamated to make for a better story, and the choices fit the exaggerated lifestyle and crimes of Anna Delvey aka Anna Sorokin.Īlongside Sorokin, the main protagonist of Inventing Anna is Vivan Kent (Anna Chlumsky), the fictional journalist based on the real-life journalist Jessica Pressler who reported the story, piecing together all the details to report on how and why Sorokin conned her way through Manhattan high society. She studied in London and interned in Paris, where she started using the name ‘Delvey’, before relocating to New York. In reality, Sorokin was born in Russia and moved to Germany aged 15. Anna's boyfriend Chase is fictionalised, but based on her real life boyfriend.Inventing Anna, the first show to come from the blockbuster deal between Netflix and great television creator Shonda Rhimes ( Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder), boasts at the start of every episode that is “This whole story is completely true, except for all the parts that are totally made up”.Įven this disclaimer has the tongue-in-cheek shady tone of Anna Delvey, the con artist pen name of Anna Sorokin (Julia Garner), a middle-class Russian immigrant who successfully scammed her way into the New York City social elite by pretending to be a rich German heiress. A former friend of Anna's, she later went on to write the best-selling book My Friend Anna, based on her experiences.Īnna's personal trainer Kacy, her friend Neff, and lawyer Todd are all real. Rachel Williams is also another real life character. Vivian was also behind the article that inspired the movie Hustlers, starring Jennifer Lopez. Vivian is based on the journalist Jessica Pressler, who wrote the article that exposed Anna. Are the characters in Inventing Anna real? The cast also features Arian Moayed (Succession), Anders Holm (Workaholics), Anna Deavere Smith (Nurse Jackie), Jeff Perry (Grey’s Anatomy) and Terry Kinney (Oz). Katie Lowes (Scandal) plays Rachel, Alexis Floyd (The Bold Type) plays Neff, and Laverne Cox (Orange Is The New Black) plays Kacy. ![]() Playing journalist Vivian is Anna Chlumsky, best known for her starring role in My Girl as a child and more recently in sitcom Veep.Īnna is played by Julia Garner, best known for playing Ruth in the Netflix series Ozark and Terra in another Netflix true crime series, Dirty John. ![]() It's been described as 'Catch Me If You Can' for the Instagram generation. It tells the story of how, after meeting through mutual friends, Anna and Rachel became inseparable - before Rachel began to suspect that her increasingly mysterious friend was not all she seemed. One of Anna's former friends, Rachel DeLoache Williams, has also written a book about her called 'My Friend Anna: The true story of the fake heiress of New York City.' Inspired by the New York Magazine article 'How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People' by Jessica Pressler, it sees reporter Vivian question whether Sorokin really was a con woman, or just the latest incarnation of the American Dream. The TV series follows a journalist with a lot to prove as she begins investigating Sorokin’s crimes as she awaited trial, finding out how she managed to steal New York high society’s hearts and money. In the end, Sorokin was convicted of larceny and theft of services, was imprisoned from 2019 until February 2021, and in March was taken into custody to be deported back to Germany.
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