Shining Girls

Shining Girls is an American thriller streaming television series based on the 2013 novel The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. The series stars Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura and Jamie Bell. It premiered on Apple TV+ on April 29, 2022. A portion of the series premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2022. Premise Kirby Mazrachi is an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times. Years ago, she was brutally attacked and left for dead, but her assailant was never found. Today she is still traumatized by the assault and struggles to make sense of her reality that keeps changing. Determined to find her attacker, she discovers a murder that has a striking resemblance to her own attack. Kirby enlists the help of reporter Dan Velazquez; together they uncover several decades-old cold cases of similar murders and hunt for a mysterious serial killer. Cast Main Elisabeth Moss as Kirby Mazrachi / Sharon Leads, Chicago Sun-Times archivist who was attacked years ago and left for dead Wagner Moura as Dan Velazquez, Sun-Times reporter who helps Kirby track down her assailant Phillipa Soo as Dr. Jin-Sook Gwansun (Jinny), researcher at the Adler Planetarium and on Harper's hit list Chris Chalk as Marcus, Kirby's husband in one of her shifting realities Amy Brenneman as Rachel, Kirby's single mother Jamie Bell as Harper Curtis, serial killer, and Kirby's attacker