Drama History TV Movie
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Directed by
George C. Wolfe
Written by
Alexander Woo
Rose Byrne
Rebecca Skloot
Ellen Barkin
Sasha Walz
Michael Gaston
Richard Wilson
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Henrietta Lacks
Leon Lamar
Cootie
Courtney B. Vance
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Rocky Carroll
Sonny Lacks
Oprah Winfrey
Deborah Lacks
Leslie Uggams
Sadie
Gabriel Ebert
Christoph Lengauer
Lisa Arrindell
Aunt Ethel
John Beasley
Cliff
Reg E. Cathey
Zakariyyah
John Benjamin Hickey
Bill Watson
Patrick Walker
Cousin Fred
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Dr. Roland Pattillo
Sage Mayer
Young Boy
Peter Gerety
Paul Lurz
Kermit Burns III
Young Cootie
Adriane Lenox
Barbara Lacks
Jock McKissic
Carl the Mechanic
Reed Birney
Dr. George Gey
Alpha Trivette
First Administrator
Peter Macdissi
Kate Bond
Young Woman
David Shae
Reporter
Ninja N. Devoe
Country Girl Mae
Jaylon Gordon
Alfred
Jordan Eli Arellano
Young Sonny Lacks
Byron Jennings
Dr. Victor McKusick
John Douglas Thompson
Lawrence Lacks
Sylvia Grace Crim
Mary Kubicek
Roger Robinson
Day Lacks
Kyanna Simone Simpson
Deborah (15-24YRS)
Tian Richards
Lawrence (16 yrs.)
Earl Poitier
Cousin Josh
Branford Marsalis
Tatom Pender
Johns Hopkins Nurse
John C. Vennema
Board Administrator
L. Warren Young
Day Lacks
Mary Shaw
Woman at Pump
Sean Freeland
Charlie
Bill Martin Williams
Crownsville Administrator
Tinashe Kajese
Sadie
Karen Wheeling Reynolds
Mrs. Gey
Jane Rumbaua
Dr. Susan Hsu
Jaedon Godley
Davon Lacks
Andrea Frye
Gladys
Jazzy Ellis
Young Gladys
Tyvonna Jones
Elsie Lacks
Kayla Anderson
Johns Hopkins Student
De'Marco Arrington
Young Joe
Matthew Bernard
Johns Hopkins Student
Raphael Dante' Carr Jr.
Young Sonny
Clint Edwards
Scientist
Christopher Robert Escobar
Chris the Intern
Elizabeth Hackler
Rebecca's Co-worker
Linden Harris
Galen (as Linden Ronel Harris)
Todd Lee
Doctor
Miguel Angel Marrero
Scientist
Tashaun Stanfill-Perry
Henrietta Lacks Neighbor
Terrence V. Walker
Church Patron

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