Ellen Pompeo returns to television to star in Good American Family, a series inspired by the controversial Natalia Grace case.
The Natalia Grace story, which exploded after Dr. Phil brought her on his show, was originally presented as a horror case, where Natalia’s adoptive family claimed that she was not a child but a grown woman masquerading as a child. They then abandoned her and moved to Canada.
The case bears many similarities to the horror film Orphan, which was released the year before Natalia was adopted. Orphan, from 2009, told the story of a family that adopts a 9-year-old girl who seems to be just what they were missing to be complete. But the innocent Esther is not what she seems, and, when more and more alarming things begin to happen, the family discovers that she is not a child, but an adult woman with a strange disease, who pretends to be a child to terrorize anyone who crosses her path.
Good American Family tries to show what really happened to Natalia Grace, what her life was like with her adoptive family, and the legal and media battle that came to destroy the family.
Is there a trailer?
Yes! Watch Ellen Pompeo in her first TV role since Grey’s Anatomy, and the rest of the actors who are part of this series, below. Pompeo plays Natalia’s adoptive mother, Kristine Barnett.
When and where does Good American Family premiere?
The eight episode series premieres March 19, 2025 with two episodes, followed by one episode weekly, all streaming on Hulu.
Who’s in the cast?
The series features Ellen Pompeo as Kristine Barnett and Mark Duplass as Michael Barnett, the couple who adopted Natalia Grace, accused her of being an adult, and were later accused of abandoning and abusing her.
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