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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017Rating6.3· 93 minDramaHistoryTV Movie

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.

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Cast & Crew

  • Oprah Winfrey

    Oprah Winfrey

    Deborah Lacks

  • Rose Byrne

    Rose Byrne

    Rebecca Skloot

  • Renée Elise Goldsberry

    Renée Elise Goldsberry

    Henrietta Lacks

  • Reg E. Cathey

    Reg E. Cathey

    Zakariyyah

  • Courtney B. Vance

    Courtney B. Vance

    Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

  • Rocky Carroll

    Rocky Carroll

    Sonny Lacks

  • Leslie Uggams

    Leslie Uggams

    Sadie

  • Reed Birney

    Reed Birney

    Dr. George Gey

  • John Douglas Thompson

    John Douglas Thompson

    Lawrence Lacks

  • Adriane Lenox

    Adriane Lenox

    Barbara Lacks

  • Roger Robinson

    Roger Robinson

    Day Lacks

  • John Beasley

    John Beasley

    Cliff

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