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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.
In ELLE's May 2021 Rising Stars issue, Anya Taylor-Joy explained why she isn’t shutting down the idea of a Queen's Gambit season two.
Matthew Dennis Lewis was born and raised in the town of Binghamton in the Southern Tier of New York [1] [2] and has three brothers, one of whom is fellow actor twin Russell. [3] He worked at a tanning salon, [ 1 ] as a fitness and swimwear model, [ 3 ] before deciding to pursue acting.
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (born 18 January 1988) is an English actor. He has played the role of Francis Weston in the BBC series Wolf Hall (2015), Francesco Salviati in Medici (2018), Townes in the Netflix chess period drama The Queen's Gambit (2020), Grigory Petrov in The Great (2023), detective Charles Whiteman in Bodies (2023) and Brian Epstein in Midas Man (2024).
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.
John Mangia, the show's visual effects supervisor, told Newsy that every project comes with new challenges, but "The Queen's Gambit" came with its own very specific learning curve.
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.
“The Queen’s Gambit,” the story of a chess prodigy that was a streaming smash for Netflix, may become a musical. Level Forward, has acquired the theatrical stage rights to Walter Tevis ...