Selma is a 2015 American historical drama written and directed by Ava DuVernay, co-written by Paul Webb and starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth, Common, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Carmen Ejogo, Lorraine Toussaint, Oprah Winfrey, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film is based on the historic 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Lewis.
Plot[]
A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.[1]
Cast[]
- David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnso
- Tim Roth as George Wallace
- Common as James Bevel
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Bayard Rustin
- Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King
- Lorraine Toussaint as Amelia Boynton Robinson
- Oprah Winfrey as Annie Lee Cooper
- Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Fred Gray
- Niecy Nash as Richie Jean Jackson
- Colman Domingo as Ralph Abernathy
- Giovanni Ribisi as Lee C. White
- Alessandro Nivola as John Doar
- Keith Stanfield as Jimmie Lee Jackson
- Andre Holland as Andrew Young
- Tessa Thompson as Diane Nash
- Wendell Pierce as Hosea Williams
- Omar Dorsey as James Orange
- Ledisi Young as Mahalia Jackson
- Trai Byers as James Forman
- Stephan James as John Lewis
- Kent Faulcon as Sullivan Jackson
- John Lavelle as Roy Reed
- Henry G. Sanders as Cager Lee
- Jeremy Strong as James Reeb
- Dylan Baker as J. Edgar Hoover
- Nigel Thatch as Malcolm X
- Charity Jordan as Viola Lee Jackson
- Haviland Stillwell as Johnson's Secretary
- Tara Ochs as Viola Liuzzo
- Martin Sheen as Frank Minis Johnson
- Michael Shikany as Archbisop Iakovos
- Michael Papajohn as Major John Butt
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