Hulu's The Girl from Plainville has a lead actress

Hulu announced that a lead actress has been found for their new drama series The Girl from Plainville. The series The Girl from Plainville is based on the Michelle Carter texting-suicide case, which was previously subject of the HBO documentary I Love You, Now Die. The series comics from Liz Hannah (Mindhunter) and Patrick Macmanus (Homecoming). The lead role will be portrayed by Elle Fanning (The Great, photo



The Girl from Plainville is considered to be the definitive report of the events that resulted in Michelle Carter's - a young woman from a small town in Massachusetts - trial for the murder of her friend Conrad Roy. The prosecutors thought that her phone call and texts resulted in his eventual suicide. These events took place when they were teenagers.

A premiere date was not yet revealed, but it was a straight to series order by the streaming service.