The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

April. 22,2017      
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Rose Byrne as  Rebecca Skloot
Renée Elise Goldsberry as  Henrietta Lacks
Oprah Winfrey as  Deborah Lacks
Ninja N. Devoe as  Country Girl Mae
Lisa Arrindell as  Aunt Ethel
L. Warren Young as  Day Lacks
Patrick Walker as  Cousin Fred
Jane Rumbaua as  Mrs. Hsu
Sylvia Grace Crim as  Mary Kubicek
Tian Richards as  Lawrence (16 yrs.)

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