Silkwood (1983)

12/14/1983 2h 11m

On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, left to meet with a reporter from the New York Times. She never got there.

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Overview

The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

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Cast Ages at Release

Meryl Streep

as Karen Silkwood

Born 06/22/1949, age

Kurt Russell

as Drew Stephens

Born 03/17/1951, age

Cher

as Dolly Pelliker

Born 05/20/1946, age

Craig T. Nelson

as Winston

Born 04/04/1944, age

Fred Ward

as Morgan

Born 12/30/1942

Died 05/08/2022, age

Diana Scarwid

as Angela

Born 08/27/1955, age

Ron Silver

as Paul Stone

Born 07/02/1946

Died 03/15/2009, age

Charles Hallahan

as Earl Lapin

Born 07/29/1943

Died 11/25/1997, age

Josef Sommer

as Max Richter

Born 06/26/1934, age

Bruce McGill

as Mace Hurley

Born 07/11/1950, age

David Strathairn

as Wesley

Born 01/26/1949, age

J.C. Quinn

as Curtis Schultz

Born 11/30/1940

Died 02/10/2004, age

M. Emmet Walsh

as Walt Yarborough

Born 03/22/1935

Died 03/19/2024, age

James Rebhorn

as Los Alamos Doctor

Born 09/01/1948

Died 03/21/2014, age

Bill Cobbs

as Man in Lunchroom

Born 06/16/1934, age

Ray Baker

as Pete Dawson

Born 07/09/1948, age

Will Patton

as Joe

Born 06/14/1954, age

Tess Harper

as Linda Dawson

Born 08/15/1950, age

Anthony Heald

as 2nd Doctor at Union Meeting

Born 08/25/1944, age

Gary Grubbs

as Randy Fox

Born 11/14/1949, age