Matthew Broderick

as Col. Robert Gould Shaw

Born 03/21/1962, age

Denzel Washington

as Pvt. Trip

Born 12/28/1954, age

Cary Elwes

as Maj. Cabot Forbes

Born 10/26/1962, age

Morgan Freeman

as Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins

Born 06/01/1937, age

Jihmi Kennedy

as Pvt. Jupiter Sharts

Born 01/01/1956, age

Andre Braugher

as Cpl. Thomas Searles

Born 07/01/1962

Died 12/11/2023, age

John Finn

as Sgt. Maj. Mulcahy

Born 09/30/1952, age

Donovan Leitch

as Capt. Charles Fessenden Morse

Born 08/16/1967, age

Bob Gunton

as Gen. Charles Garrison Harker

Born 11/15/1945, age

Cliff DeYoung

as Col. James M. Montgomery

Born 02/12/1945, age

Jay O. Sanders

as Gen. George Crockett Strong

Born 04/16/1953, age

Alan North

as Gov. John Albion Andrew

Born 12/23/1920

Died 01/19/2000, age

Richard Riehle

as Quartermaster

Born 05/12/1948, age

Peter Michael Goetz

as Francis George Shaw

Born 12/10/1941, age

Mark Margolis

as 10th Connecticut Soldier

Born 11/26/1939

Died 08/03/2023, age

Jane Alexander

as Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw

Born 10/28/1939, age

Raymond St. Jacques

as Frederick Douglass

Born 03/01/1930

Died 08/27/1990, age

Bill Nunn

Born 10/20/1953

Died 09/24/2016, age

Ethan Phillips

as Hospital Steward

Born 02/08/1955, age