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Nightmare Alley

film by del Toro [2021]

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Blanchett

  • Cate Blanchett
    In Cate Blanchett: Hepburn, Dylan, and Academy Awards

    …Earth, and  Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley. In the latter, a film noir adapted from a novel by William Lindsay Gresham, the actress played a manipulative psychoanalyst who meets a scheming carnival worker (Bradley Cooper).

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Collette

  • Toni Collette
    In Toni Collette

    In Nightmare Alley (2021), a film noir directed and cowritten by Guillermo del Toro, she portrayed a clairvoyant. Collette turned to black comedy with The Estate (2022), about sisters who scheme to inherit their dying aunt’s fortune.

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Cooper

  • Bradley Cooper
    In Bradley Cooper

    …director, and the film noir Nightmare Alley. In the latter, which was directed by Guillermo del Toro, Cooper was cast as a scheming carnival worker who meets a manipulative psychoanalyst (Cate Blanchett).

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Dafoe

discussed in biography

Steenburgen