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
Oprah Winfrey
Deborah Lacks
Michael Gaston
Richard Wilson
Courtney B. Vance
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Rocky Carroll
Sonny Lacks
Peter Gerety
Paul Lurz
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Henrietta Lacks
Leslie Uggams
Sadie
John Benjamin Hickey
Bill Watson
John Beasley
Cliff
Reg E. Cathey
Zakariyyah
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Dr. Roland Pattillo
Lisa Arrindell
Aunt Ethel
John Douglas Thompson
Lawrence Lacks
Adriane Lenox
Barbara Lacks
Reed Birney
Dr. George Gey
Gabriel Ebert
Christoph Lengauer
Patrick Walker
Cousin Fred
Kate Bond
Young Woman
Peter Macdissi
L. Warren Young
Day Lacks
Roger Robinson
Day Lacks
David Shae
Reporter
Byron Jennings
Dr. Victor McKusick
Alpha Trivette
First Administrator
Sylvia Grace Crim
Mary Kubicek
Bill Martin Williams
Crownsville Administrator
John C. Vennema
Board Administrator
Kyanna Simone Simpson
Deborah (15-24YRS)
Ninja N. Devoe
Country Girl Mae
Earl Poitier
Cousin Josh
Branford Marsalis
Sean Freeland
Charlie
Leon Lamar
Cootie
Jock McKissic
Carl the Mechanic
Jane Rumbaua
Dr. Susan Hsu
Karen Wheeling Reynolds
Mrs. Gey
Jordan Eli Arellano
Young Sonny Lacks
Tinashe Kajese
Sadie
Tian Richards
Lawrence (16 yrs.)
Tatom Pender
Johns Hopkins Nurse
Mary Shaw
Woman at Pump
Jaylon Gordon
Alfred
Kermit Burns III
Young Cootie
Sage Mayer
Young Boy
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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