Ella Beatty Leads Monster Season 4 Cast as Lizzie Borden Becomes Series' 1st Female Subject
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Updated · Netflix Tudum · Sep 17
Ella Beatty Leads Monster Season 4 Cast as Lizzie Borden Becomes Series' 1st Female Subject
3 articles · Updated · Netflix Tudum · Sep 17
Summary
Ella Beatty has been cast as Lizzie Borden in "Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story," the fourth season of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology, after what Brennan described as a wide casting search.
The season frames Borden as a constrained young heiress in 1890s Fall River whose relationship with housekeeper Bridget "Maggie" Sullivan helps drive the story toward the infamous murders.
Vicky Krieps plays Bridget and also Countess Elizabeth Báthory in fantasy flashbacks, while Charlie Hunnam and Rebecca Hall play Borden’s father Andrew and stepmother Abby.
Sarah Paulson appears as Aileen Wuornos in a timeline set 100 years later, linking Borden’s case to a broader thread of female violence that the season explores.
The new installment marks the first time "Monster" has centered on a woman, with Beatty saying the series aims to examine why women kill through Borden’s psychology.
How does linking Lizzie Borden's 1892 acquittal to modern killers like Aileen Wuornos redefine the chilling legacy of female rage?
With the series premiering today, will this stylized dive into Victorian repression finally expose the truth behind America's most infamous unsolved double murder?