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Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, HBO’s Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
In 2004, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to start a company that was going to revolutionize healthcare. In 2014, Theranos was valued at $9 billion, making Holmes, who was touted as “the next Steve Jobs,” the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Just two years later, Theranos was cited as a “massive fraud” by the SEC, and its value was less than zero.
Drawing on extraordinary access to never-before-seen footage and testimony from key insiders, director Alex Gibney will tell a Silicon Valley tale that was too good to be true. With all the drama of a real-life heist film, the untitled documentary will examine how this could have happened and who is responsible, while exploring the psychology of deception.
Original Release
03/18/2019
US Release
03/18/2019
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Alex Gibney | Interviewer / Self - Narrator / Self - Interviewer |
Elizabeth Holmes | Self - CEO and Founder of Theranos / Self - CEO and Founder of Theranos (archive footage) |
Dan Ariely | Self - Behavioral Economist |
Roger Parloff | Self - Fortune |
Ken Auletta | Self - The New Yorker |
Erika Cheung | Self - Lab Associate |
Cheryl Gafner | Self - Receptionist |
Dave Philippides | Self / Self - Engineer |
Douglas Matje | Self - Biochemist |
Ryan Wistort | Self - Research & Development |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alex Gibney | Interviewer / Self - Narrator / Self - Interviewer |
Elizabeth Holmes | Self - CEO and Founder of Theranos / Self - CEO and Founder of Theranos (archive footage) |
Dan Ariely | Self - Behavioral Economist |
Roger Parloff | Self - Fortune |
Ken Auletta | Self - The New Yorker |
Erika Cheung | Self - Lab Associate |
Cheryl Gafner | Self - Receptionist |
Dave Philippides | Self / Self - Engineer |
Douglas Matje | Self - Biochemist |
Ryan Wistort | Self - Research & Development |
Tony Nugent | Self - Vice President, Product Development |
Phyllis Gardner | Self - Professor of Medicine, Stanford University |
Channing Robertson | Self - Theranos Advisor |
Don Lucas | Self - Investor |
Tim Draper | Self - Investor |
Tyler Shultz | Self - Research Engineer |
Ramesh Balwani | Self - President and Chief Operating Officer / Self - President and Chief Operating Officer (archive footage) |
Rochelle Gibbons | Self - Wife of Ian Gibbons / Self - Ian Gibbons' Wife |
Matt Hernan | Self - Facilities Coordinator |
Patrick O'Neill | Self - Chief Creative Officer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Nancy Abraham | Executive Producer |
Sara Bernstein | Executive Producer |
Graydon Carter | Executive Producer |
Stacey Offman | Executive Producer |
Richard Perello | Executive Producer |
Alex Gibney | Producer |
Nick Bilton | Producer |
Jessie Deeter | Producer |
Erin Edeiken | Producer |
Ophelia Harutyunyan | Producer |
Mahak Jiwani | Producer |
Jessica Sanders | Producer |
Editors
Clips
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2019 | Emmy | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special | Nominated |