Film
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
United States- Age rating
- K-12
- Director
- George C. Wolfe
- Year
- 2017
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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.
Top cast
Oprah Winfrey
Deborah Lacks
Rose Byrne
Rebecca Skloot
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Henrietta Lacks
Reg E. Cathey
Zakariyyah
Courtney B. Vance
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Rocky Carroll
Sonny Lacks
Leslie Uggams
Sadie
Reed Birney
Dr. George Gey
John Douglas Thompson
Lawrence Lacks
Adriane Lenox
Barbara Lacks
Roger Robinson
Day Lacks
John Beasley
Cliff
Peter Gerety
Paul Lurz
Gabriel Ebert
Christoph Lengauer
John Benjamin Hickey
Bill Watson
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Dr. Roland Pattillo
Byron Jennings
Dr. Victor McKusick
Sylvia Grace Crim
Mary Kubicek
Directed by
George C. Wolfe
Written by
George C. Wolfe, Peter Landesman
