Freeheld

Carell joined the ensemble of Freeheld (2015) as a gay activist attempting to secure pension benefits for the partner (Ellen Page) of a dying police officer (Julianne Moore). He played a short-tempered hedge-fund manager in Adam McKay’s The Big Short (2015), a black comedy about the 2008 financial crisis, and…

…(played by Ellen Page) in Freeheld (2015), which was based on a true story.