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

Rose Byrne

as Rebecca Skloot

Renée Elise Goldsberry

as Henrietta Lacks

Oprah Winfrey

as Deborah Lacks

Ninja N. Devoe

as Country Girl Mae

Lisa Arrindell

as Aunt Ethel

Earl Poitier

as Cousin Josh

L. Warren Young

as Day Lacks

Patrick Walker

as Cousin Fred

Jane Rumbaua

as Mrs. Hsu

Sylvia Grace Crim

as Mary Kubicek

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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