“Younger” star Miriam Shor will guest star on FX’s upcoming miniseries “Mrs. America,” starring Elizabeth Banks and Cate Blanchett, TheWrap has learned exclusively.
The limited series tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (Era), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett. Through the eyes of the women of that era – both Schlafly and second wave feminists Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne), Betty Friedan (Tracey Ullman), Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba), Bella Abzug (Margo Martindale) and Jill Ruckelshaus (Banks) – the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted our political landscape.
Shor will play Natalie Gittelson. Special features editor at Harper’s Bazaar and divorced mother of three, Gittelson was Friedan’s best friend.
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The limited series tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (Era), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Blanchett. Through the eyes of the women of that era – both Schlafly and second wave feminists Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne), Betty Friedan (Tracey Ullman), Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba), Bella Abzug (Margo Martindale) and Jill Ruckelshaus (Banks) – the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the 70s helped give rise to the Moral Majority and forever shifted our political landscape.
Shor will play Natalie Gittelson. Special features editor at Harper’s Bazaar and divorced mother of three, Gittelson was Friedan’s best friend.
Also Read: 'Younger' Star Miriam Shor on Directing That...
- 9/11/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
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