Movie · 2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Released 22 April 2017 More from 2017 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
FR·01
How old were they?
Leon Lamar
as Cootie
John Beasley
as Cliff
L. Warren Young
as Day Lacks
Adriane Lenox
as Barbara Lacks
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
as Dr. Roland Pattillo
Reg E. Cathey
as Zakariyyah
Courtney B. Vance
as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
Michael Gaston
as Richard Wilson
John Benjamin Hickey
as Bill Watson
Lisa Arrindell
as Aunt Ethel
Renée Elise Goldsberry
as Henrietta Lacks
FR·02
The numbers
36years between the oldest and youngest billed
82Leon Lamar — oldest on the call sheet
46Renée Elise Goldsberry — youngest billed
59average age of the credited cast