The third season of NatGeo’s acclaimed bioseries Genius will be about the life of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, TVLine has learned.
Shelley will be the series’ first female subject, following Season 1’s Albert Einstein (played by Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Flynn) and Season 2’s Pablo Picasso (played by Antonio Banderas and Alex Rich).
Ken Biller will return as showrunner, executive producer and writer, as will executive producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, among others.
The British author and storied intellectual, who lived from 1797–1851, is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus.