when actors must become a character It takes an enormous amount of effort when performing a character into an engaging spectacle for the audience applause and consideration of awards.
A lot of actor have played characters who were straight while they were in reality homosexual. Due to the significant attention that the LGBTQIA+ community is now receiving, some actors have spoken out about the issue. But, given the controversy over straight actors portraying gay characters, this list is also applicable to straight actors who are gay to play straight roles. Read on to find out who is on the list.
Matt Bomer
When he’s not entertaining women by playing Con-artist Neal Caffrey in White Collar The blue-eyed actor is showing off his abs in a toned male prostitute on Magic Mike, and expectant father in The Sinner, a Netflix show. The Sinner.
Matt was open about his sexuality in 2012 when he gave his acceptance speech at the Steve Chase Humanitarian Award. Matt has been with Publicist Simon Halls since 2011, and they have three children. He spoke with Attitude in September of 2020 about the loss of opportunities to perform since he came out.
Amandla Stenberg
The actress, who is only 19, is experienced with acting in straight roles. She was Maddy Whittier, a young woman suffering from a medical condition who is in affection with her friend on the show Everything, Everything, and she also played Starr Carter in 2018’s The Hate You Give, starring Chris Bryant (K. J. Apa) as her boyfriend.
Being the first person to identify as bisexual after her first encounter, she came out as gay in the year 2018 during an interview in Wonderland. She is in the forefront of promoting to protect LGBTQIA+ rights, and was awarded the The Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award.
Sarah Paulson
A.K. Ocean 8 actress who played an unmarried spouse and bored suburban mom in the film isn’t new to the scene of playing straight characters. She has been gay on American Horror Story: Asylum and Carol however, one of the roles she has was Harriet Hayes in Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip, a character based on American actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth. Paulson was the first actress to receive a Golden Globe Award nomination for the part.
Dating women in actual life and in real life, the actress with a sexually fluid body is currently in a relationship in a relationship with Holland Taylor, and has been since the year 2015. They share an age gap of 32 years.
Rebel Wilson
Longtime comedian also known as Pitch Perfect actress Rebel Wilson has played a variety of straight characters throughout the years that it’s impossible to pick out. In September of 2020 she posed for the camera with her the man she was dating Jacob Busch in loved-up pictures of theirs.
They broke up in the year before. The actress was spotted out as gay in June, and then revealed her partner publicly. She wrote in her caption,” I thought I was searching for a Disney prince… but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney princess,” with the pride rainbow. Her and her girlfriend Romana Arguma were spotted out and out and about.
Kristen Stewart
The actress scored her big break with her role in the Twilight film series, in which she played Bella Swan alongside former real life partner Robert Pattinson. Since Twilight was her first film, she has been playing gay characters in the rom-com Happyest Season as well as Victorian thriller Lizzie with Chloe Sevigny.
The bisexual actress is currently engaged to her girlfriend Dylan Meyer, who she has been with since the beginning of 2019. She was previously in a relationship with models Stella Maxwell from 2016 to the year 2018.
Raven-Symone
It is said that the Disney star was also a childhood hot star in the 90s and the in the early 2000s. She appeared in the Disney films The Cheetah Girls, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and That’s So Raven. She reprised her character playing Raven Baxter in That’s So Raven sequel Raven’s Home. To do this, Disney asked her if she’d like to alter her character from one who was a lesbian. But she didn’t want to.
Her first public appearance was in May 2016 despite having been aware about her sexuality as young as the age of 12. She got married to her long-time partner Miranda Maday in June 2020.
Neil Patrick Harris
Before he was cast as a the gay character on the Netflix series Uncoupled, Neil has played mostly straight roles throughout his life. His most well-known character has been Barney Stinson in the hit show How I Met Your Mother. Viewers saw Neil play a smooth-talking ladykiller between 2005 until 2014, and he received the highest praise for this role.
Neil is gay, and proud of it in real life. He’s and is married to his long-time partner David Burka with two kids. Neil made public his gayness in 2006 and put the speculation to the wind.
Jonathan Bailey
“You are the bane of my existence, and the object of all my desires.” The lines might be one of the best phrases ever uttered on television and all thanks to Jonathan Bailey. Jonathan Bailey became a fan-favorite for his role as Anthony Bridgerton, leading man and Kate Sharma’s love interest on Season 2 of Netflix’s Bridgerton.
Although he played an unidentified character and shared private scenes of his screen girlfriend however, the actor is sexually gay on the real world. Interview with Digital Spy, he spoke about how gay actors can be normalized acting as a straight actor.