The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
"Discover what you are made of"
Cast & Crew
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
George C. Wolfe
Director
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.
