The Beautiful Lie is an Australian television drama that aired on ABC.
The six-part series is a contemporary re-imagining of Leo Tolstoy's classic 1877 novel Anna Karenina.
[1] It is directed by Glendyn Ivin and Peter Salmon and produced by Endemol Australia's John Edwards and Imogen Banks.
[3] Screenwriter Alice Bell made the decision to turn Anna and Xander into sports stars to heighten the transgression of a wife leaving her husband.
[12] Michael Idato regards The Beautiful Lie as being superbly cast.