Beth Harmon Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

One of the biggest hits of 2020 was the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit.

Playbill.com reported on Monday that Level Forward, the production company behind Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” musical, had purchased the rights to Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel, from which the Netflix series was adapted.

The Queen’s Gambit, the Walter Tevis novel recently adapted as the hit Netflix miniseries, could be headed to Broadway as a musical.

Anya Taylor-Joy was a bit shocked when her name was announced as the winner of the Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie at the 2021 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night (March 7).

Red hot mama! Gigi Hadid made her return to the runway for the Versace Fall/Winter 2021 show on March 5. The model and mother to 6-month-old daughter Khai not only brought her best walk though, she also brought a fiery new head of red hair.

Check mate! Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy gave a secret nod to Beth Harmon during the 2021 Golden Globes. The actress, who won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, rocked a chess-inspired manicure for her virtual appearance.

Anya Taylor-Joy is a winner!

From the moment she put down Walter Tevis’ book The Queen’s Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy knew how she would portray chess genius Beth Harmon, who blazes a trail and explodes glass ceilings during the Cold War-era 1960s as a femme champion in the testosterone-dominated game-peg playing world.

The globe-trotting chess adventures of Beth Harmon still aren’t likely to continue despite Netflix’s most-watched limited series (at 62M worldwide) earning not only two Golden Globe nominations today but an Adapted Long Form WGA nomination for Scott Frank and Allan Scott’s scripts.

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy on Christmas Day.The 24-year-old actress, who stars as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in Netflix‘s The Queen’s Gambit, is such a big fan of the fantasy films that watching them in one sitting is a Christmas tradition.While sporting a very similar look to the Galadriel (the character played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson’s 2001-2003 film series), Taylor-Joy told The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that her “number one goal in life” is to look like an elf.“I just

Anya Taylor-Joy may be the star of Netflix’s wildly successful limited series,, playing Beth Harmon in the coming-of-age drama about a chess prodigy, but it’s director Marielle Heller, who appears as her adoptive mother, Mrs. Alma Wheatley, who steals all the scenes.“She really threw herself into that character,” executive producer William Horberg tells ET about the filmmaker, who has earned critical acclaim for helming, and.

chess prodigy Beth Harmon of “The Queen’s Gambit.” “I am technically undefeated against her,” said the Manhattan fifth-grader, who narrowly beat the fictional anti-heroine on his iPad. The victory ended a Chess.com challenge pitting real players, such as Oliver, against simulated versions of the fictitious Beth at different ages and correlating degrees of difficulties.

Anya Taylor-Joy is opening up about how she didn’t know anything about chess before starring as a chess prodigy on the hit Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit.

The Queen's Gambit is Netflix users latest obsession.The drama follows the rise of chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the middle of the 20th century.Released at the end of last month, the miniseries has been watched in its droves having been viewed by 62 million households during its first month.Off the back of the show's success, The Queen's Gambit, the 1983 novel upon which the series was based, has also entered the New York Times bestseller list.Starring Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth, it follows a young

Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit has broken the record for most-watched limited scripted series on the platform.The hit series follows Anya Taylor-Joy’s orphan chess prodigy Beth Harmon, and also stars Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling and Bill Camp.The show premiered exactly one month ago (October 23) on the streaming platform, and has since been watched by 62 million accounts, making it the biggest limited show in Netflix history.However, it is worth

Peter White Television EditorThe Queen’s Gambit has been watched by 62M households – making it Netflix’s biggest scripted limited series to date.The series, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy as rising chess star Beth Harmon, launched on October 23, and is based on Walter Tevis’ novel.Co-written by Scott Frank, who also directs, and Allan Scott (Don’t Look Now), The Queen’s Gambit chronicles the life of an orphan chess prodigy.

Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit has prompted a huge surge in the sale of chess sets, eBay has confirmed.The show, based on Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel of the same name, follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy, Beth Harmon, played in the show by Anya Taylor-Joy.eBay has now revealed that the website saw a 273% surge in searches for chess sets over the first 10 days of the show being released on Netflix.Nouman Qureshi, Toys Category Manager at eBay UK, told Metro: “We’re seeing shoppers turn to

Netflix‘s latest limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” is a show about tragedy, trauma, and self-doubt, on top of being about a chess prodigy. Turns out, there is a longer story behind the show, including the fact that Heath Ledger was trying to make the story of Beth Harmon into his directorial debut right before he died in 2008.

Anya Taylor-Joy is bringing the coming-of-age drama about a chess prodigy to life in, and ET is exclusively debuting the full-length trailer for the Netflix limited series ahead of its Oct. 23 debut.Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the series “explores the true cost of genius” as it tells the story of an orphan, Beth Harmon (Taylor-Joy), who discovers she has a remarkable talent for chess. Soon after she’s adopted by a lonely housewife, Mrs.