Requiem for a Dream Cast

Requiem for a Dream Cast

Meet the Cast

Sara (Ellen Burstyn)

Bad DietSouth Beach. Weight Watchers. The Zone. Atkins. Paleo. There's a fad diet for every day of the year. For leap years, when you need a 366th fad diet, we suggest the Requiem for a Dream diet,...

Harold "Harry" Goldfarb (Jared Leto)

One-Armed BanditEveryone wants a boyfriend like Harry Goldfarb. He's an entrepreneur. He wants his girlfriend to be successful. And he looks like Jared Leto. Sure, there's the whole heroin-using an...

Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly)

View to a ThrillMarion's a co-dependent thrillseeker who aspires to be a fashion designer…but, since this is Requiem for a Dream, a drug habit gets in the way. Pro tip: do not watch this movie if...

Tyrone C. Love (Marlon Wayans)

All You Need is LoveThe women in this movie are complicated. The men? Not so much. Both Harry and Tyrone are pretty simple boys living in men's bodies. Tyrone just wants to make his mama proud, whi...

Tappy Tibbons (Christopher McDonald)

Tapped OutTappy Tibbons is like inspirational speaker Tony Robbins and sleazy diet pitchman Kevin Trudeau smooshed together into a sandwich and doused with spray tanner.Tappy is more distant from u...

Ada (Louise Lasser)

Curl Up and DyeAda is Sara's friend and the one who lends her the diet book. That means we can blame everything that happens to Sara on Ada, who starts her on the slippery slope to diet pill addict...

Other Characters

Men Are From MarsMost of the men in this movie are pretty nice…even if they're screwed up. Arnold, the Shrink (Sean Gullette) is not most men. He's screwed up and he's a jerk. Like the doctor who...