The Gilded Age takes some creative liberties with its storytelling, but many of the plots, characters and events are rooted in truth.

It takes a large ensemble of actors and actresses — some very heavy Broadway hitters — and more to bring 'The Gilded Age' together for HBO.

In 1882 New York, orphaned Marian Brook moves in with her old-money aunts amid the American Gilded Age’s clash of wealth and power. With her friend Peggy Scott, Marian becomes caught in a social ...