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- Burton's characters, and their television adaptation are fiction, but Petronella Oortman, Johannes Brandt, and the doll house were all very much real.
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The Miniaturist: With Anya Taylor-Joy, Romola Garai, Hayley Squires, Alex Hassell. A young woman moves to 17th century Amsterdam and hires a mysterious local miniaturist to furnish the dollhouse she received from her merchant husband as a present, but the lifelike miniatures somehow start eerily foreshadowing her fate.
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The Miniaturist is a 2017 BBC television miniseries adaptation of the debut novel of the same name by Jessie Burton. The series was directed by Guillem Morales and stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Romola Garai and Alex Hassell and first aired in two parts from 26–27 December 2017 on BBC One. [1] In the United States, it aired in three parts from 9–27 ...
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- The Book. Author Jessie Burton, an Oxford graduate and actress, was working as a personal assistant when inspiration for her first novel, The Miniaturist, struck.
- The Inspiration. Burton’s inspiration for The Miniaturist was a dollhouse that the author saw on display in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum when she was on vacation in 2009.
- As Seen In… Actress Anya Taylor-Joy helms her first MASTERPIECE lead as Petronella (Nella) Oortman, the young penniless aristocrat who arrives in Amsterdam ready to assume the role of wife to her wealthy (and strangely absent) new husband.
- A MASTERPIECE Favorite Returns. The Miniaturist‘s mysterious Marin, a severe and fiercely intelligent foil to her brother Johannes, is played by actress Romola Garai.
Drama. Secrets of The Miniaturist's cabinet house and dolls revealed. Meet the woman whose dollhouse inspired the story and the real-life miniaturists who brought it to life. Sarah Doran....
The Miniaturist is the 2014 debut novel of English actor and author Jessie Burton. An international bestseller, it was the focus of a publishers' bidding war at the 2013 London Book Fair. Set in Amsterdam in 1686–87, the novel was inspired by Petronella Oortman's doll's house on display at the Rijksmuseum.
