The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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

Oprah Winfrey

as Deborah Lacks

Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne

as Rebecca Skloot

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Renée Elise Goldsberry

as Henrietta Lacks

Reg E. Cathey

Reg E. Cathey

as Zakariyyah

Courtney B. Vance

Courtney B. Vance

as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

Rocky Carroll

Rocky Carroll

as Sonny Lacks

Leslie Uggams

Leslie Uggams

as Sadie

Reed Birney

Reed Birney

as Dr. George Gey

John Douglas Thompson

John Douglas Thompson

as Lawrence Lacks

Adriane Lenox

Adriane Lenox

as Barbara Lacks

Reviews

Reno

**You will know everything, but Henrietta Lacks!** It's a good biographical drama, but the only problem is its not what exactly the title says. If you believed to learn about Henrietta Lacks and went to see it, you might end disappointingly. Because she was the only topic of the story, not the ac...

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