The stranger-than-fiction story of Ukranian-born Natalia Grace and her US adoptive parents who claimed that she was an adult “sociopath” pretending to be a child, is the inspiration for an eight-episode Hulu limited series starring and executive produced by Ellen Pompeo.As she takes on the Untitled Orphan Project, Grey’s Anatomy star Pompeo will be scaling back her on-screen presence on the ABC medical drama next season to eight episodes.
She will remain a narrator and executive producer on the show.The shocking case, which has drawn parallels to the 2009 horror movie Orphan, made national headlines in September 2019 when Kristine Barnett and her ex-husband Michael Barnett were charged with neglect for allegedly abandoning their adopted daughter Natalia, who has a rare form of dwarfism, in 2013 when she was 9. (After putting her up in an apartment, they had moved to Canada.) The parents have claimed that Natalia, whom they adopted when they thought she was 6, is in fact a mentally disturbed adult woman who threatened their lives.
Most of the charges against Kristine Barnett and Michael Barnett were eventually dismissed; Natalia has denied the accusations that she is a grownup con artist.The limited drama series was created and written by Katie Robbins (The Affair) and inspired by the true story of the Midwestern couple who adopts what they believe is a little girl with of dwarfism.
As they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, they slowly start to believe she may not be who she says she is.
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