See the “Twisted Story of Amanda Knox” forged side-by-side with the actual individuals they play

• The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox is a brand new sequence concerning the real-life saga of Amanda Knox, an American change pupil wrongly convicted of homicide in Italy.
• Knox serves as an govt producer on the sequence, which stars Grace Van Patten, Sharon Horgan, and Francesco Acquaroli.
• The primary two episodes at the moment are streaming on Hulu.

What occurred to Amanda Knox was actually twisted.

A topic of fervent tabloid fodder, the Seattle-born change pupil was wrongly convicted of homicide in 2009 and imprisoned overseas for years earlier than being exonerated in 2015.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, a restricted sequence now streaming on Hulu, is the newest dramatization of her journey, however it's the primary the place Knox serves as an govt producer. Okay.J. Steinberg is the showrunner on the sequence, which stars Tell Me Lies breakout Grace Van Patten as Knox.

The challenge is one level in Knox's lengthy quest to reshape her public picture after she was arrested for the 2007 homicide of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, with whom she lived whereas learning overseas in Perugia, Italy.

All through her trial, worldwide media shops sensationalized the proceedings whereas dubbing her "Cunning Knoxy." After her exoneration, an Italian court docket decided that the media consideration "didn’t (facilitate) looking for the reality," and criticized the poor police work with which the case was dealt with.

A number of real-life gamers in Knox's saga are portrayed within the sequence, from prosecutor Giuliano Mignini to her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who was additionally convicted and later exonerated for Kercher's homicide. Under, we break down who's taking part in who (and supply side-by-side photographs of

Learn on to see the actors side-by-side with the actual individuals they play.

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Grace Van Patten as Amanda Knox

Grace Van Patten leads The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox because the titular American change pupil in Perugia, Italy, who's wrongly accused of murdering her British roommate.

Steinberg spoke with Leisure Weekly about her strategy to portraying Knox onscreen. Apparently, she used Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie, the film Knox says she and Sollecito watched the night time of Kercher's homicide, as a degree of inspiration.

"I discovered that her connection to Amélie actually was reflective of a worldview of the particular person she was earlier than all of this occurred," Steinberg mentioned. "The innocence, the romantic idealism, the naiveté, the urge for food for journey — all of these issues had been very consultant of who Amanda was and what was stolen from each Amanda and Meredith and their households, and the individuals surrounding them who had been re-victimized by the injustice that ensued."

She continued, "It appeared solely applicable to assist the viewers get to know her as an individual earlier than the false imprisonment, earlier than the false accusations, earlier than the crime, as a result of that's not who she is. That’s what her story grew to become, however that's not who she is as a human being."

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Talking with Elle, Van Patten, too, mirrored on the significance of shining a brand new mild on Knox. “It feels bizarre to even name it a task,” she mentioned. “It felt a lot greater and extra vital than that, as a result of we had been all serving to any person reclaim their story.”

Although she's simply 28 years previous, Van Patten has been performing for 20 years. Early elements on sequence like The Sopranos (2006) and Boardwalk Empire (2014) gave approach to bigger roles in movies like Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Tales (2017) and David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake (2018).

A pair of starring roles on Hulu — 9 Good Strangers (2021) and Inform Me Lies (2022–current) — cemented Van Patten as a rising star.

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Sharon Horgan as Edda Mellas

Irish actress, director, and producer Sharon Horgan costars on The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox as Edda Mellas, Knox's mom.

"When you've ever questioned the portrayal of girls within the media, particularly younger ladies who dare to have a sexuality then this shall be eye opening," Horgan wrote in an Instagram publish selling the sequence. "At a time when the world is continually coping with the affect of misinformation, the present explores how bias shapes narratives."

The Emmy-nominated, BAFTA-winning Horgan has appeared in movies reminiscent of Game Night (2018) and The Insufferable Weight of Huge Expertise (2022). She's additionally discovered success because the creator and star of comedian sequence reminiscent of Pulling (2006–2009), Catastrophe (2015–2019), and Bad Sisters (2022–current), the latter an EW favourite.

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John Hoogenakker as Curt Knox

John Hoogenakker seems in The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox as Curt Knox, Amanda's father.

Knox spoke concerning the help of her dad and mom through the years in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "From the second I keep in mind current, my household conveyed that I matter, that I’m liked," she mentioned. "Even when the world deconstructed me — previous, current, future — and instructed me I don’t matter, deep down I knew they had been fallacious. That love ready me to endure and never be damaged."

A veteran of the stage and display screen, Hoogenakker is finest identified for his supporting activates Amazon Prime's Jack Ryan (2018–2019) and Hulu's Emmy-winning sequence Dopesick (2021). He additionally performed key roles on Fortress Rock (2019) and Waco: The Aftermath (2023).

The actor has a number of tasks within the works, together with Paul Thomas Anderson's extremely anticipated movie One Battle After One other and a visitor spot on season 4 of the Apple TV+ sequence The Morning Present.

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Giuseppe De Domenico as Raffaele Sollecito

The Sicily-born Giuseppe De Domenico costars as Raffaele Sollecito, the Italian pupil who briefly dated Knox earlier than getting swept up together with her within the case of Kercher's homicide.

"One factor I needed to convey was the love-lost story between me and Raffaele," Knox instructed The Hollywood Reporter. "We’d met and had been simply eight days into younger love earlier than we had been arrested."

An actor on the rise, De Domenico has primarily featured in Italian productions, together with the Amazon Prime sequence Bang Bang Child (2022) and Maura Delporo's Vermiglio (2024). The latter movie gained the Grand Jury Prize on the 81st Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant and was nominated for a Golden Globe.

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Francesco Acquaroli as Giuliano Mignini

Italian actor Francesco Acquaroli stars on The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox as Giuliano Mignini, the dogged prosecutor who painted Knox as a sex-crazed killer and in contrast her to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

Knox maintains a fancy relationship with the real-life Mignini, with whom she finally struck up an e mail correspondence. "I'm not an individual whose religion, for instance, compels them to forgive. That was not my objective," Knox instructed PEOPLE whereas selling her newest e book, Free: My Search For That means. "My objective was to perceive him… there was this deep curiosity in me to attempt to perceive this one who determined that I used to be a harmful particular person, who deserved to spend probably the most years of my life in jail."

She even journeyed to Italy in 2022 to talk with him in particular person, a gathering that's reportedly dramatized on the sequence.

"I feel the actual trick and the actual cool flip is how I went from being a pawn and powerless in his story and him having all of this company over my well-being, as quickly as we met, that flipped," Knox defined. "And all of the sudden I went from feeling completely powerless to a superhero, and nobody may cease me. And that has felt so good. That’s being free."

Acquaroli, who many critiques have cited as a spotlight of the sequence, has been performing in Italy and elsewhere for practically 40 years. Throughout his lengthy profession, he's labored with a number of acclaimed filmmakers, together with Abel Ferrara (Pasolini) and Costa-Gavras (Adults within the Room). He additionally appeared on sequence like Netflix's Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017–2020) and FX's Fargo (2020).

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Roberta Mattei as Monica Napoleoni

Roberta Mattei performs Detective Superintendent Monica Napoleoni, one of many first investigators to reach on the scene of Kercher's homicide.

Mattei has been a daily presence in Italian movie and tv for practically 20 years, with credit that embody the sports activities drama Italian Race (2016), Netflix superhero sequence Zero (2021), and the eco-thriller By no means Too Late (2024).

The place can I watch The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox?

The primary two episodes of The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox at the moment are streaming on Hulu. New episodes drop weekly by means of October 1.

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