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