The Dropout on Disney+: Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews… Where have you seen the stars of the series before?
Available on Disney+, the mini-series The Dropout tells the true and staggering story of a financial scandal that shook Silicon Valley. Worn by Amanda Seyfried, it brings together other faces well known to fans. Focus.
After the success of Dopesick, Disney+ lifts the veil on a new mini-series inspired by real events: The Dropout, which looks back on the resounding scandal of the Theranos affair. It tells the story of entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the Theranos company at just 19 years old and the youngest self-proclaimed billionaire in the world.
Blinded by excessive ambition and a totally perverted desire for fame, she will lose her entire empire and experience an equally spectacular fall… Told in eight episodes all available on the platform, her story is carried by a cast of stars from young to old. screen. Portraits.
AMANDA SEYFRIED IS ELIZABETH HOLMES
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At the top of the bill, Amanda Seyfried brilliantly plays businesswoman Elizabeth Holmes, who from the first episode states her main goal in life: to become a billionaire. A role that stands out quite drastically from those who made it known to the general public!
After her debut in television soap operas and the series Veronica Mars, where she portrayed the murdered best friend of the heroine, the actress joined the famous band of Plastics in the comedy Lolita despite me, her first role in the cinema.
Alternating between romantic comedies (Letters to Juliet), action films (Time Out, Gringo) and dramas (Mank), Amanda Seyfried also gives voice in the adaptation of the musical Mamma Mia!, and in the guise of Cosette in Les Miserables.
More recently, viewers were also able to find her on the small screen in Twin Peaks – The Return, before she landed the lead role in The Dropout, to discover now on Disney +.
NAVEEN ANDREWS IS SUNNY BALWANI
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Remember, almost 18 years ago, Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed on a lost island in the first episode of the cult series Lost: The Disappeared. Among the survivors, the mysterious and ingenious Sayid Jarrah played by actor Naveen Andrews, a role that will mark his career forever.
Today interpreter of Sunny Balwani, who was president and director of Theranos, in The Dropout, the actor has also appeared in the series Sense8, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Instinct.
UTKARSH AMBUDKAR IS RAKESH MADHAVA
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Mentor of Elizabeth Holmes at Stanford University, before becoming her employee at Theranos, Rakesh Madhava is played by Utkarsh Ambudkar. Currently starring in the comedy Ghosts (US), still unpublished in France, the American actor also stood out in the film The Hit Girls and in 2021 in the comedy Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds.
The future looks rather bright for Utkarsh Ambudkar with a musical project at Disney+, in which he should appear, but for which he also and above all signed the screenplay with Jamie King (Jessica Jones).
MICHEL GILL IS CHRIS HOLMES
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In the Holmes family, we ask for the father. It is Michel Gill who lends him his features in the mini-series. In recent years, the actor has mainly distinguished himself on the small screen. He thus embodies President Garrett Walker in House of Cards, the CEO of the cybersecurity company Allsafe in Mr. Robot or more recently Patrick Morris in The Gilded Age.
ELIZABETH MARVEL IS NOEL HOLMES
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Noel, Elizabeth Holmes’ mother, is portrayed by Elizabeth Marvel, who viewers will recognize from her roles in Fargo, Person of Interest and House of Cards. Fun fact: while Michel Gill, her husband on screen in The Dropout, played the President of the United States in the political series of Netflix, the actress occupied the Oval Office in Homeland!
WILLIAM H. MACY IS RICHARD FUISZ
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Star of the series Shameless US, in which he lent his features to the character of Frank Gallagher for 11 seasons, William H. Macy also shone in the cinema by winning in 1997 an Oscar nomination for best supporting role for his interpretation of Jerry Lundegaard in Coen Brothers’ Fargo. In The Dropout he plays Richard Fuisz, a friend of the Holmes family.
STEPHEN FRY IS IAN GIBBONS
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Actor, writer, director, screenwriter, humorist, TV presenter… Stephen Fry has more than one string to his bow and does not hesitate to diversify projects of all kinds. Among his most recent roles, we have seen him in the excellent series It’s a Sin and furtively in Sex Education, but also in the trilogy The Hobbit in the cinema. On the poster for The Dropout, he slips into the skin of Ian Gibbons, head of the chemistry department.
KATE BURTON IS ROCHELLE GIBBONS
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The wife of scientist Ian Gibbons is played by Kate Burton, notably known to fans of the Grey’s Anatomy series for the role of Dr. Ellis Grey, Meredith’s mother. In Scandal, she plays Vice President Sally Langston. Very present on the small screen, the public was also able to discover her in The Practice, Veep, Grimm, The Good Wife, Supergirl or Inventing Anna.
LAURIE METCALF IS PHYLLIS GARDNER
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The list does not stop there: in the role of Professor Gardner, we find the actress Laurie Metcalf who has distinguished herself on television and in the cinema. Sister of comedy heroine Roseanne and mother of Sheldon Cooper in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, she was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2018 for Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird.
DYLAN MINNETTE IS TYLER SHULTZ
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Despite his young age, Dylan Minnette already has a great career behind him. Best known to viewers for having held the main role of the series 13 Reasons Why for three seasons, he also played in Scandal, Lost: The Disappeared, Prison Break, as well as Prisoners and Scream on the big screen.
Find this impressive cast in the mini-series The Dropout on Disney+.
