Overview
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.
Cast
- Oprah Winfrey as Deborah Lacks
- Rose Byrne as Rebecca Skloot
- Renée Elise Goldsberry as Henrietta Lacks
- Reg E. Cathey as Zakariyyah
- Courtney B. Vance as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
- Rocky Carroll as Sonny Lacks
- Leslie Uggams as Sadie
- Reed Birney as Dr. George Gey
- John Douglas Thompson as Lawrence Lacks
- Adriane Lenox as Barbara Lacks