Mary Elizabeth Winstead Joins Cast of Showtime's 'A Gentleman in Moscow'
Showtime's buzzy upcoming adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow has found its leading lady: Star Ewan McGregor's real-life wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Based on Amor Towles's bestselling 2016 novel of the same name, A Gentlemen in Moscow is set during the early 1920s and follows the story of Count Alexander Rostov (McGregor), an aristocrat on the wrong side of the Russian Revolution. Exiled (more like imprisoned, really) in the attic of a lavish hotel, and forbidden to leave it upon pain of death, he spends the next three decades within the walls of the Hotel Metropol, living without the luxuries he has previously been accustomed to, building relationships with the other residents, and hearing secondhand about the world-changing events taking place in the city outside.
Winstead will play Anna Urbanova, a character described as a glamorous, independent, and self-made film actress. Enigmatic and mysterious, she easily uses her beauty and wit to dazzle Rostov but is reluctant to reveal much of her true self. And while their chemistry is apparent from the moment they meet, is it true love or just the latest in a long line of roles she's taken on?
