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Sarah Pidgeon Cast As Carolyn Bessette In FX’s ‘American Love Story’ About JFK Jr. Romance


FX's American Love Story, which chronicles the courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, has cast Sarah Pidgeon as Bessette.

In the first season, focused on JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, what started out as a beautiful union for the young couple, widely regarded as American royalty, began to fray under the stress of the relentless microscope and navel gaze of tabloid media. The pressures of their careers and rumored family discord ended with their tragic deaths when his private plane crashed into the ocean on a hazy summer night off the coast of Massachusetts. American Love Story is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Brad Simpson, Nina Jacobson, D.V.

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