J. Edgar

In Clint Eastwood’s biopic J. Edgar (2011), she portrayed the mother of J. Edgar Hoover (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), and, in the drama My Week with Marilyn (2011), she appeared as actress Sybil Thorndike. She was featured in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and its 2015 sequel, both…

Edgar Hoover in the biopic J. Edgar (2011). In Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), DiCaprio chewed the scenery as a slave-driving plantation owner in antebellum Mississippi. He then appeared in another grandiose role—the title character in Luhrmann’s glitzy 2013 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

J. Edgar (2011) was a weighty biopic of J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), the longtime head of the FBI. Armie Hammer had the film’s other key role, Clyde Tolson, Hoover’s right-hand man and the love of Hoover’s life. Thus, J. Edgar was as much a…

…part in Clint Eastwood’s biopic J. Edgar (2011). Driver then was cast as the weird and deviant boyfriend of the character played by Lena Dunham in her popular comedy series Girls (2012–17). The role brought him high visibility and three Emmy Award nominations (2013, 2014, and 2015). Driver also appeared…

…International (2009); and the biopic J. Edgar (2011).