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First episode date
  
18 October 2015

Number of seasons
  
1

Writers
  
Jonathan Gavin

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Number of episodes
  
6

Network
  
ABC

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Cast
  
Sarah Snook, Celia Pacquola

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The Beautiful Lie is an Australian television drama that airs on ABC. The six-part series is a contemporary re-imagining of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel Anna Karenina. It is directed by Glendyn Ivin and Peter Salmon and produced by Endemol Australia's John Edwards and Imogen Banks. It premiered on Sunday 18 October 2015 at 8:30pm. Screenwriter Alice Bell made the decision to turn Anna and Xander into sports stars to heighten the transgressiveness of a wife leaving her husband.

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Cast

  • Sarah Snook as Anna Ivin
  • Rodger Corser as Xander Ivin
  • Sophie Lowe as Kitty Ballantyne
  • Celia Pacquola as Dolly Faraday
  • Daniel Henshall as Kingsley Faraday
  • Benedict Samuel as Skeet Du Pont
  • Catherine McClements as Tess Du Pont
  • Alexander England as Peter Levin
  • Dan Wyllie as Nick Levin
  • Robert Menzies as Phillip Ballantyne
  • Gina Riley as Catherine Ballantyne

    • Supporting Cast

  • Marlon Williams as Dylan
  • Sheena Reyes as Nat
  • Lewis Fletcher as Kasper Ivin
  • Kate Jenkinson as Helen
  • Rachel Jessica Huxtable as Waitress

    • Reception

    Melinda Houston found that the changes in society since Anna Karenina made Anna's decision to cheat on her husband seem immature rather than tragic. Michael Idato regards The Beautiful Lie as being superbly cast.

    References

    The Beautiful Lie (TV series) Wikipedia
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