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With sarah gadon, edward holcroft, rebecca liddiard, zachary levi. Now, netflixs sixpart miniseries version of her alias grace, looks back a century and a half to find a story that is much the same in theme, but transfixingly different in style. The sixhour miniseries follows grace marks, a poor, young irish immigrant. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Based on the awardwinning novel by margaret atwood and inspired by true events, alias grace tells the story of grace marks sarah gadon, a young, poor.
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