Where is the “American Psycho ”cast now? See what the A-list stars are doing today
Where is the “American Psycho ”cast now? See what the A-list stars are doing today
Johnny Loftus, Kevin JacobsenWed, April 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC
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Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, Reese Witherspoon as Evelyn Williams, Justin Theroux as Timothy Bryce, Samantha Mathis as Courtney Rawlinson, and Matt Ross as Luis Carruthers in 'American Psycho'Credit: Everett
Christian Bale put a face to the empty consumerism of yuppie culture with his fiercely committed performance as Patrick Bateman in 2000's American Psycho. Based on the 1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the film puts us directly in Bateman's mind as he works as a New York City investment banker by day and murders by night. Both looks-obsessed and deeply disdainful of his colleagues, Bateman operates under the cover of darkness as a serial killer, but his actions are soon put under a microscope by investigator Donald Kimball (Willem Dafoe).
While critics and audiences were mixed on American Psycho when it was released in April 2000, Mary Harron's film has had a very favorable legacy more than 25 years later, for how it shines a satirical light on toxic masculinity and the rot of materialism. It also holds up as one of the best-assembled casts of the century so far, with Bale, Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, and more making up its stellar ensemble.
Ahead, we're looking at the careers of the American Psycho cast since starring in the twisted cult classic.
Christian Bale (Patrick Bateman)
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in 'American Psycho'; Christian Bale at the 'Thor: Love and Thunder' Los Angeles premiere on June 23, 2022Credit: Everett Collection; Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
American Psycho director and co-writer Mary Harron had to fight to get Christian Bale cast as Patrick Bateman, especially because the studio execs wanted Leonardo DiCaprio for the role. Luckily, Harron's faith paid off as Bale delivered one of his most chillingly iconic performances to date.
Bale followed up American Psycho by dropping a startling amount of weight for 2004's The Machinist. Soon after, though, Bale bulked back up as Christopher Nolan came calling with Batman Begins (2005), After reprising the character of Bruce Wayne/Batman in 2008's The Dark Knight, then taking on the role of John Connor in 2009's Terminator Salvation (which he became infamous for in the ensuing years), Bale won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as boxer/trainer Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010).
He received additional Oscar nods for his work in American Hustle (2013), The Big Short (2015), and Vice (2018). The actor returned to the comic book world in the 2020s, making his MCU debut as the villainous Gorr the God Butcher in 2022's Thor: Love and Thunder. Most recently, he starred as Frankenstein's monster in Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! (2026), and he will soon play Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis in David O’Russell’s John Madden biopic, Madden.
Bale has been married to his wife, Sibi Blažić, since 2000. They have two children together.
Willem Dafoe (Donald Kimball)
Willem Dafoe as Donald Kimball in 'American Psycho'; Willem Dafoe at the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Northman' on April 18, 2022Credit: Everett Collection; Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
By the time he appeared in American Psycho, Willem Dafoe had already acted in a wide range of films and scored an Academy Award nomination for 1986's Platoon. So what did he do afterward? He followed up American Psycho by transforming into Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), for which he earned his second Oscar nomination.
Dafoe has gone on to play the supervillain Green Goblin in 2002's Spider-Man and its respective sequels; collaborate with directors Lars von Trier and Wes Anderson on numerous occasions; and make a disparate group of independent films. He reteamed with Christian Bale for 2013's Out of the Furnace, and appeared alongside Keanu Reeves in the 2014 action thriller John Wick.
His storied career also includes voicing animated characters; earning additional Oscar nominations for his work in The Florida Project (2017) and as Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018); and — how's this for range? — playing underwater scientist Nuidis Vulko in Aquaman (2018) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).
After reprising his role of Norman Osborne/Green Goblin in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Dafoe appeared in a variety of genre films such as Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things (2023), Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024), and Robert Eggers' Nosferatu (2024), and will soon reunite with Eggers for Werewulf (2026).
Dafoe married his wife, actress Giada Colagrande, in 2005. He has a son from a previous marriage to director Elizabeth LeCompte.
Jared Leto (Paul Allen)
Jared Leto as Paul Allen in 'American Psycho'; Jared Leto at the London premiere of 'House of Gucci' on Nov. 9, 2021Credit: Everett Collection; Tristan Fewings/Getty Images
What can you say about Jared Leto? After his performance as Paul Allen in American Psycho, the actor dropped a significant amount of weight to play a character in the throes of heroin addiction in Requiem for a Dream (2000); grew in culturally appropriated cornrows for Panic Room (2002); and then focused increasingly on his rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, which released a couple of platinum sellers in the mid-2000s.
By 2013, it was back to acting, and his performance as a transgender woman living with drug addiction in Dallas Buyers Club earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. While continuing to record and perform with Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto soon ended up playing the Joker in 2016's Suicide Squad, a role that felt made for him, and, a year later, played another villain in Blade Runner 2049.
In 2021, the divisive actor played a serial killer in The Little Things and Italian fashion designer Paolo Gucci in Ridley Scott's biographical drama House of Gucci. The next year, Leto appeared alongside Anne Hathaway on the small screen in WeCrashed, an eight-episode Apple TV miniseries about the rise and fall of the co-working operation WeWork. Further roles include Ares in Tron: Ares (2025) and Skeletor in Masters of the Universe (2026).
Leto was in a relationship with Cameron Diaz from 1999 to 2003 and Valery Kaufman from 2015 to 2022.
Reese Witherspoon (Evelyn Williams)
Reese Witherspoon as Evelyn Williams in 'American Psycho'; Reese Witherspoon on the red carpet at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild AwardsCredit: Everett Collection; Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Before Reese Witherspoon took on a supporting turn in American Psycho as Patrick Bateman's fiancée, she was a former child and teen actress coming off widespread acclaim for her role as Tracy Flick in the dark comedy Election (1999).
But, just a year later, everything changed for Witherspoon's career with the smashing success of the comedy Legally Blonde (2001), in which she starred as the ebullient Elle Woods. She successfully navigated rom-com land for 2002's Sweet Home Alabama (which also featured her American Psycho costar Josh Lucas), and reappeared as Elle in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde.
In 2005, Witherspoon played June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, for which she sang on camera for the first time and earned a Best Actress Oscar, and then embarked on a drift through more films built around romances and love triangles, most of which weren't as successful.
Witherspoon reinvented her career in the 2010s, when she founded the production company Pacific Standard (later renamed Hello Sunshine) and received a second Oscar nomination for playing Cheryl Strayed in Wild (2014). In 2017, she co-produced and starred in the acclaimed HBO series Big Little Lies, for which she won an Emmy for producing. Witherspoon also produces and stars on The Morning Show for Apple TV, and co-wrote her first novel, Gone Before Goodbye, with Harlan Coben in 2025.
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So what's next for the multihyphenate? Witherspoon is revisiting one of the most iconic titles in her filmography, executive producing the Legally Blonde prequel series, Elle, for Amazon Prime Video.
Witherspoon has two children with her first husband, Ryan Phillippe, and another with her second husband, Jim Toth.
Josh Lucas (Craig McDermott)
Josh Lucas as Craig McDermott in 'American Psycho'; Josh Lucas at a screening of 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' in New York on April 10, 2022Credit: Lionsgate; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Josh Lucas followed up American Psycho by appearing alongside Russell Crowe in 2001's A Beautiful Mind and playing a handsome guy role in Sweet Home Alabama. He was also in Ang Lee's Hulk, and, by 2006, was appearing in the uplifting period basketball film Glory Road, a role for which he gained considerable weight.
Lucas costarred with Matthew McConaughey in 2011's The Lincoln Lawyer, and that same year played Charles Lindbergh in Clint Eastwood's biopic J. Edgar.
After starring in one season of a TV adaptation of John Grisham's The Firm, Lucas joined the cast of The Mysteries of Laura, and later appeared on Yellowstone as the younger version of Kevin Costner's John Dutton. Following his run on the Western, he joined the main cast of Apple TV's '60s-set dramedy Palm Royale alongside Kirsten Wiig. Lucas is also a frequent voice actor and, for many years, has done advertising work for the Home Depot.
Lucas has a son with ex-wife Jessica Ciencin Henriquez. He married meteorologist Brianna Ruffalo in 2025.
Justin Theroux (Timothy Bryce)
Justin Theroux as Timothy Bryce in 'American Psycho'; Justin Theroux at the Tiffany & Co. mens collection launch at the Hollywood Athletic Club on Oct. 11, 2019Credit: Lionsgate; Jean Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images
"You ain't seen nothin' yet. Raised lettering, pale nimbus. White." Whether flaunting his latest business card design or doing drugs in a bathroom stall — "I want to get high off this, not sprinkle it on my f---ing oatmeal" — Justin Theroux makes investment banker Timothy Bryce the picture of brash 1980s yuppie excess.
Theroux went on to two notable 2001 performances — one as a film director in David Lynch's dark and dreamy noir Mulholland Drive, and remember the evil DJ spinning Frankie Goes to Hollywood in Zoolander? Yes, that's him.
The actor later appeared in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), Michael Mann's movie reboot of Miami Vice (2006), and the 2007 dramedy Broken English. Theroux turned to screenwriting in 2008, collaborating with Ben Stiller on the script for Tropic Thunder and writing Iron Man 2 (2010).
In subsequent years, Theroux frequented the small screen, starring on the acclaimed HBO series The Leftovers; taking a lead role on the Apple TV adaptation of The Mosquito Coast; recurring on Netflix's sports comedy series Running Point; and joining the second season of Prime Video's Fallout. He will soon star in Apple TV's Siegfried & Roy biographical miniseries Wild Things as real estate developer Steve Wynn.
Theroux entered a high-profile relationship with Jennifer Aniston in 2011, marrying in 2015 and ultimately divorcing in 2018. He married actress Nicole Brydon Bloom in 2025.
Chloë Sevigny (Jean)
Chloë Sevigny as Jean in 'American Psycho'; Chloë Sevigny at the 'Russian Doll' season 1 premiere in New York City on Jan. 23, 2019Credit: Everett Collection; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images
Chloë Sevigny's supporting turn in American Psycho came on the heels of her Oscar-nominated work in 1999's Boys Don't Cry, which itself was the culmination of a decade that found her rising to prominence as a fashion model and actor in independent films.
Sevigny continued to access the world of fashion, collaborating with her friend Tara Subkoff for the conceptual fashion imprint Imitation of Christ, and she also worked with notable auteur directors, including Olivier Assayas (2002's Demonlover), Lars von Trier (2003's Dogville), and Werner Herzog (2009's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done).
In 2006, she began a five-season run on HBO's Big Love, which also featured American Psycho costar Matt Ross. Sevigny received a Golden Globe for her work on the series. Elsewhere on television, she's been seen on Will & Grace, American Horror Story, Portlandia, Russian Doll, and various miniseries, including Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which earned her her first Emmy nomination. She will soon appear in Peacock's The Five-Star Weekend, a limited series adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel of the same name.
Sevigny also still works on the big screen, with appearances in Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die (2019), and Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All (2022) and After the Hunt (2025).
Sevigny married art gallery director Siniša Mačković in 2020; they have a son together.
Samantha Mathis (Courtney Rawlinson)
Samantha Mathis as Courtney Rawlinson in 'American Psycho'; Samantha Mathis at SiriusXM Studios in New York City on Nov. 15, 2018Credit: Everett Collection; Taylor Hill/Getty Images
Samantha Mathis, who played Courtney in American Psycho, the fiancée of Luis Carruthers and paramour of Patrick Bateman, followed up that supporting role with the splashy TNT miniseries The Mists of Avalon, and stayed on the TV side of things for 2004's Salem's Lot and appearances on various versions of Law & Order.
Mathis costarred in The Punisher (2004) alongside Thomas Jane; returned to television for roles on House, Lost, and Grey's Anatomy; and joined the cast of FX horror drama The Strain in 2015. That same year, Mathis became the National Vice President of SAG-AFTRA and was re-elected in 2017. Later, Mathis was featured in a recurring role on the Showtime hit Billions and most recently guest-starred on Elsbeth.
Mathis dated River Phoenix after working together on the 1993 film The Thing Called Love. She was with him on the day of his drug overdose and death, an incident she finally spoke about in detail in 2018.
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