Now MGM has a Gilded Age series, too, with The American Heiress

Julianna Margulies will star as Cora Cash, a wealthy American brought to England to secure a title.

By Drew Gillis  |  November 11, 2026 | 9:24am
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Now MGM has a Gilded Age series, too, with The American Heiress

The Gilded Age is officially back on HBO for its fourth season, exploring revenge, hosting the President for dinner, and the shockingly simple (at least, so far) joys of a lavender marriage. In the wake of this premiere, Netflix debuted the first look at its own Gilded Age series with The Age Of Innocence, based on the Edith Wharton novel. Now, one day later, MGM+ has thrown its hat into the same era, too, with The American Heiress. Like The Age Of Innocence, this one is also based on a novel, albeit a much newer one; Daisy Goodwin’s novel was released in the United States in 2011. And like The Gilded Age‘s Gladys Russell, the new series will follow a woman who may upgrade her American wealth with a British title. 

The official synopsis for The American Heiress reads: 

In 1893, beautiful and vivacious Cora Cash is a “dollar princess” reluctantly brought to England by her mother the formidable Mrs. Cash in search of the “one thing she can’t buy at home, a title.” Cora thinks she is in love with Teddy, an American artist, but when she falls off her horse in a hunting accident and wakes up in Lulworth Castle, the seat of the 12th Duke of Wareham, all her certainties are challenged. Cora wants above all to do the right thing, but in the morally ambiguous world of the “naughty nineties” England where the first rule is never to comment on a likeness when visiting the nursery, she struggles to know what path to follow. Her mother Isabella meets her match in the Double Duchess, a woman who goes through dukedoms like kid gloves. Will Cora find a place in this world of intrigue where everyone knows the rules except her – will she choose the Old World or the New?

The American Heiress will star Julianne Margulies, an actor that shockingly has not appeared in The Gilded Age, despite the frequent appearances from her colleagues in the Good television universe. No other casting information has yet been released, nor has a release date. 

 
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