Anna Nicole follows the swift rise and fall of Vickie Lynn Hogan, a Texas high school dropout and single mother with dreams of a better life.
Realizing the power of her beauty, Vickie accepts a job as a dancer at a topless bar, where she changes her name to Anna Nicole Smith and first makes her mark.
With a new persona and a shocking marriage to octogenarian millionaire J. Howard Marshall, Anna’s career blasts off when Playboy features her in a pictorial spread that evokes comparisons to Marilyn Monroe.
But after her husband’s death, Anna’s financial support ends and her hard-partying ways, excessive drinking, drastic weight fluctuation and endless pill-popping take their toll, inevitably setting the stage for the fading starlet’s tragic descent.
Exploring the sordid details that created her infamous persona, from stardom to untimely death, the world premiere will be on Saturday, June 29, at 8:00pm ET/PT.
The film, stars Agnes Bruckner (Lifetime’s The Craigslist Killer, Private Practice) as Anna Nicole Smith, Virginia Madsen portrays Anna’s mother Virgie, Adam Goldberg is Anna’s lawyer, Howard K. Stern; Carey Elwes plays Marshall’s son, E. Pierce; Graham Patrick Martin (Two and a Half Men) stars
as Anna Nicole’s son, Daniel, and Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Martin Landau as J. Howard Marshall.
Superstar executive producers are Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (Lifetime’s Steel Magnolias, Oscar-winning Chicago) and Judith Verno (Lifetime’s Drew Peterson: Untouchable, The Craigslist Killer, Natalee Holloway).