Ryan Murphy has discovered his latest Monster star, and she or he’s the offspring of two Hollywood legends.

Ella Beatty, the daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, has been forged as the infamous accused ax assassin Lizzie Borden in season 4 of Murphy’s true-crime anthology collection, Leisure Weekly has confirmed. It will solely be the 25-year-old actress’ third display screen credit score, following roles in 2024’s Feud: Capote vs. the Swans (one other Murphy mission) and the upcoming Mary Bronstein dramedy If I Had Legs I would Kick You.

Ella Beatty reacted to her casting in an Instagram put up Monday, writing, “Can’t imagine I get to work with geniuses such as these.” She’ll be joined in Monster season 4 by Rebecca Corridor and Vicky Krieps.

Monster concluded its second season, billed as Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story, in September. Along with launching the careers of titular stars Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch, the season starred Chloë Sevigny as the Menéndez brothers’ mom, Kitty. Sevigny herself beforehand performed Borden within the 2018 movie Lizzie.

Borden’s story has captivated the general public for greater than a century. In 1892, Borden claimed that she had found her father and stepmother, Andrew Jackson Borden and Abby Durfee Grey, brutally murdered within the household’s house in Fall River, Mass. The weapon used within the murders, an ax, launched the case to nationwide notoriety, and Borden was in the end tried and acquitted. Within the years since, her life has been depicted on the stage and display screen and past.

The primary season of Monster chronicled the exploits of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (performed by Evan Peters), and season 3 will star Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, the mass assassin whose heinous crimes impressed Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Krieps can also be set to look in season 3.

Monster airs in parallel with two different sprawling Murphy initiatives: Feud, which dramatizes high-profile interpersonal conflicts, and the prolonged American Story franchise, which incorporates anthology collection American Horror Story, American Horror Tales, American Crime Story, and the upcoming Love Story.

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Previous to Ella Beatty’s display screen debut, the Juilliard graduate shared the stage with stars like Hugh Jackman, Sarah Paulson, Billy Crudup, and Lily Rabe. Final 12 months she took over the function of River Rayner from Elle Fanning within the Broadway play Acceptable, which received Paulson (a frequent Murphy muse) a Tony Award. Beatty beforehand appeared with Crudup and Rabe in a manufacturing of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts on the Lincoln Middle Theater and with Jackman in an Off Broadway manufacturing of Sexual Misconduct of the Center Courses.