David Oyelowo

as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Born 04/01/1976, age

Carmen Ejogo

as Coretta Scott King

Born 10/22/1973, age

Tom Wilkinson

as President Lyndon B. Johnson

Born 02/05/1948

Died 12/30/2023, age

Giovanni Ribisi

as Lee White

Born 12/17/1974, age

Tim Roth

as Gov. George Wallace

Born 05/14/1961, age

André Holland

as Andrew Young

Born 12/28/1979, age

Colman Domingo

as Ralph Abernathy

Born 11/28/1969, age

Common

as James Bevel

Born 03/13/1972, age

Stephan James

as John Lewis

Born 12/16/1993, age

LaKeith Stanfield

as Jimmie Lee Jackson

Born 08/12/1991, age

Oprah Winfrey

as Annie Lee Cooper

Born 01/29/1954, age

Tessa Thompson

as Diane Nash

Born 10/03/1983, age

Cuba Gooding Jr.

as Fred Gray

Born 01/02/1968, age

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

as Bayard Rustin

Born 11/24/1956, age

Alessandro Nivola

as John Doar

Born 06/28/1972, age

E. Roger Mitchell

as Frederick Reese

Born 02/18/1971, age

Dylan Baker

as J. Edgar Hoover

Born 10/07/1959, age

Niecy Nash-Betts

as Richie Jean Jackson

Born 02/23/1970, age

Corey Reynolds

as Rev. C.T. Vivian

Born 07/03/1974, age

Wendell Pierce

as Rev. Hosea Williams

Born 12/08/1963, age

Jeremy Strong

as James Reeb

Born 12/25/1978, age

Stephen Root

as Col. Al Lingo

Born 11/17/1951, age

Martin Sheen

as Frank Minis Johnson (uncredited)

Born 08/03/1940, age

Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Born 01/15/1929

Died 04/04/1968, age

Harry Belafonte

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Born 03/01/1927

Died 04/25/2023, age

Tony Bennett

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Born 08/03/1926

Died 07/21/2023, age

Sammy Davis Jr.

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Born 12/08/1925

Died 05/16/1990, age