We've each heard of musician and character biopics — now, it's each astir the tech CEO biopic.
These days, startup founders tin beryllium conscionable arsenic celebrated (or infamous) arsenic immoderate different celebrity, and the melodramatic lives they've lived successful business aliases astatine location make awesome fodder for TV and movies.
To play these figures, immoderate of our best-known actors had to ditch their signature looks to return connected Steve Jobs' turtleneck and wire-frame glasses, aliases Elizabeth Holmes' reddish lipstick and frizzy blowout.
Here are 16 celebrities who transformed to play immoderate of Silicon Valley's astir salient figures.
Andrew Garfield arsenic Sam Altman successful 'Artificial'
"After the Hunt" wasn't capable for Garfield and head Luca Guadagnino — now the 2 person teamed up to show the communicative of OpenAI CEO and cofounder Altman.
"Artificial," which is group for merchandise successful prime theaters connected Christmas Day, will attraction connected Altman's 2023 firing by cofounder Ilya Sutskever (Yura Borisov) and subsequent rehiring 1 week later.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt arsenic Travis Kalanick successful 'Super Pumped'
Gordon-Levitt played Uber cofounder and erstwhile CEO Kalanick successful "Super Pumped," a 2022 Showtime constricted series. It focuses connected the rise of Kalanick and his eventual autumn from power, culminating successful his 2017 resignation from the company.
Amanda Seyfried arsenic Elizabeth Holmes successful 'The Dropout'
Seyfried played Holmes each the measurement from her clip astatine Stanford successful 2003 (where she did the titular dropping out) done to the catastrophic collapse of her institution Theranos successful 2015, spurred by an exposé published successful The Wall Street Journal, successful the 2022 Hulu constricted bid "The Dropout."
Theranos purported to manufacture a instrumentality that could do a litany of humor tests from a azygous digit prick, but, infamously, it ne'er really worked. In 2022, Holmes was sentenced to 11 years successful situation aft being convicted of defrauding investors.
There's speculation that Seyfried will reprise the role, successful a way, arsenic Holmes successful the coming documentary "You Can See Everything," but it's unclear really much, if any, engagement she has successful the doc.
Ashton Kutcher arsenic Steve Jobs successful 'Jobs'
The first mention of Jobs connected this database goes to Kutcher, who played the Apple laminitis successful the 2013 biopic "Jobs." It follows his profession from the beginning of Apple successful 1976 to the preamble of the first iPod successful 2001.
Michael Fassbender arsenic Steve Jobs successful 'Steve Jobs'
Two years aft "Jobs," the precocious laminitis was portrayed again connected screen, this clip by Michael Fassbender successful "Steve Jobs."
Instead of a modular cradle-to-grave biopic, "Steve Jobs" checks successful pinch the enigmatic fig astatine 3 different points successful his career: first successful 1984, earlier the preamble of the first Apple Macintosh computer; second, successful 1988, erstwhile Jobs is the caput of a caller company, NeXT, and is preparing to motorboat its first computer; and finally, successful 1998, arsenic Jobs gears up to merchandise the iMac.
Noah Wyle arsenic Steve Jobs successful 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'
In 1999, the TV movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" aired, starring Wyle arsenic the Apple founder. It chronicles Jobs' profession from the '70s to the '90s, from the founding of Apple to his return arsenic CEO.
Anthony Michael Hall arsenic Bill Gates successful 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'
The different half of the "Pirates of Silicon Valley" communicative focuses connected Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft. He's played by "Breakfast Club" prima Anthony Michael Hall.
The film's climax is based connected the real-life falling retired Gates and Jobs had successful 1985, erstwhile Jobs felt that Gates had ripped disconnected Apple.
Jared Leto arsenic Adam Neumann successful 'WeCrashed'
Leto really did physically toggle shape to play the WeWork CEO and cofounder successful the 2022 Apple TV+ miniseries "WeCrashed." The show chronicled the immense occurrence the coworking start-up knowledgeable successful its early days successful 2010, each the measurement done its disastrous attempted IPO successful 2019.
Anne Hathaway arsenic Rebekah Paltrow Neumann successful 'WeCrashed'
Hathaway costarred successful "WeCrashed" arsenic Neumann's wife, Rebekah Paltrow Neumann, who was heavy progressive successful WeWork, moreover if she wasn't officially a cofounder. She was, however, "an unpredictable and unmistakable presence" astatine the company, per Business Insider's reporting.
Jay Baruchel arsenic Mike Lazaridis successful 'BlackBerry'
The creation of the BlackBerry, 1 of the earliest smartphones, was dramatized successful "BlackBerry," which starred Baruchel arsenic 1 of the cofounders of RIM (the marque down the phone) and 1 of the cocreators of the BlackBerry itself, Lazaridis.
The movie originates pinch Lazaridis and his partner teaming up pinch Jim Balsillie (more connected him later) to make BlackBerry the astir celebrated smartphone successful the world — only for its reign to extremity pinch the iPhone.
Glenn Howerton arsenic Jim Balsillie successful 'BlackBerry'
RIM really sewage disconnected the crushed erstwhile Mike Lazaridis and his cofounder Doug Fregin were approached by Balsillie. According to the movie's telling, Balsillie offered to put $20,000 for a 50% liking successful the company, and was yet sold a 33% liking for $125,000 and the title of co-CEO.
The little we opportunity astir Howerton's performance, the amended — it really must beryllium seen to beryllium believed.
Lily James arsenic Whitney Wolfe Herd successful 'Swiped'
2025's "Swiped" is the communicative of the creation of Bumble done the eyes of its founder, Herd. Originally, she was a cofounder of Tinder, but resigned successful 2014, and yet received an out-of-court colony aft suing Tinder for intersexual favoritism and intersexual harassment, without either Tinder aliases its genitor company, IAC, admitting to wrongdoing.
After leaving Tinder, Herd wanted to create an app that focused connected female empowerment, and thus, Bumble, a making love app wherever women person to make the first move, was born.
Sebastian Stan arsenic Vlad Tenev successful 'Dumb Money'
In 2023's "Dumb Money," which is astir the "Gamestonk" GameStop short compression and consequent play that happened successful 2021, led by the Reddit organization r/WallStreetBets and 1 personification successful particular, Keith Gill, aka Roaring Kitty, Stan has a mini role.
He plays Robinhood cofounder and CEO, Tenev. During the events of the film, Tenev directs Robinhood, an e-trading level and finance app, to extremity allowing users to bargain definite stocks and options (including GameStop), which caused an uproar.
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