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The best-selling author of Be Fierce and Getting Real began co-hosting Fox & Friendsin 2005 and continued doing so until 2013, when she announced her resignation from Fox News. Carlson’s contract with the company officially ended in 2016, and soon after, she filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit against Ailes. In 2017, she helped introduce the “Ending ...

The year before he died, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes (played by John Lithgow in Bombshell) saw more than 20 women accuse him publicly and privately of acts of sexual harassment. After Ailes left Fox in 2016 (receiving a payment of $40 million and retaining an advisory position meant to last until 2018), it was reported that Ailes used Fox money to “hi...

Margot Robbie’s ambitious news junkie and Evangelical millennial Kayla Pospisil is not based on one particular person, but rather the experiences of the many people screenwriter Randolph interviewed throughout the course of his research. “Kayla is an amalgamation of many women’s stories,” says Robbie, “and some of the specifics you see in scenes wi...

In Bombshell, Kayla develops a relationship with a closeted gay and liberal woman named Jess Carr, played by Kate McKinnon. Like Pospisil, Carr is also a fictionalized addition to the Fox newsroom. According to McKinnon, she reflects firsthand accounts from women who claimed they couldn’t be out in the Fox News environment.

Ailes’s wife Beth (played by Connie Britton) met Roger when she was a programming executive at CNBC in 1996. The two were married in 1998 (with Rudy Giuliani presiding over the wedding), and then Roger made Beth the publisher of two local newspapers he purchased just for her, the Putnam County News and Recorder and the Putnam CountyCourier. Beth Ai...

The three people with whom Kelly works closest in Bombshellare fictionalized characters, meant to provide a sounding board as she decides whether or not to speak out against Ailes. These characters include Kelly’s researcher Julia Clarke (Brigette Lundy-Paine), the wisecracking assistant Lily Balin (Liv Hewson), and Rob Delaney as executive produce...

Former Westchester County district attorney and current Fox News host Jeanine Pirro (played by Alanna Ubach) is characterized in Bombshell as “the founding member of Team Roger” who calls the allegations against Ailes “absurd,” and balks at Carlson’s narrative in general: “This guy is doing eight million things a day. You really think that he’s cha...

Roach’s film offers a brief, disturbing flashback to a moment around Thanksgiving 2006, when Fox News correspondent Rudi Baktitar (played by Nazanin Boniadi) was reportedly sexually harassed by Fox News D.C. Bureau Chief Brian Wilson. In 2007, Wilson publicly denied the charges and was promoted by Fox. Meanwhile, Bakhtiar was prohibited from talkin...

Kelly’s supportive husband, Doug Brunt, is played by Mark Duplass in Bombshell. Brunt is the former CEO of an internet security company called Authentium, Inc. He has since written three books, including Ghosts of Manhattan, a New YorkTimesbestseller. Brunt has three children with Kelly.