The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
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.
- Released
- 2017-04-22
- Genres
- Drama, History, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- George C. Wolfe, George C. Wolfe, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 from 114 votes
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
- Roger Robinson as Day Lacks
- John Beasley as Cliff