Mama Flora

Cicely Tyson

Willie

Blair Underwood

Young Flora

Erika Alexander

Diana

Queen Latifah

Luke

Mario Van Peebles

Don

Hill Harper

Ernestine

Tanya Wright

Lincoln Fleming

Shemar Moore

Albie

Lou Myers

David Ramsey

Pearl (1955-1970)

Novella Nelson

Diana (Teenager)

Sicily Johnson

Della Reese

Young Willie

Elijah Kelley

Reverend Jackson

Tommy Hollis

Shashawnee Hall

Jessica

Donna Biscoe

Mrs. Hopkins (Younger Woman)

Rhoda Griffis

Pearl

Patty Mack

Pearl

Michelle Benjamin-Cooper

Mrs. Hopkins (Older Woman)

Edith Ivey

Lincoln

Terrence Howard

Ruthana (Teenager)

Angelina Spicer

Charlie (1912)

E. Roger Mitchell

Don

Wynton Yates

Johnny Metzer

Ronald McCall

Booker Palmer (Age 8)

Wesley Yates

Charlie (1941)

Gregory Alan Williams

Ben

Mike Masters

Jason

DJ Qualls

Dancer

Faye Yvette McQueen

Flora's Mama

Carol Mitchell-Leon

Racist

Earl Maddox

Public Defender

Wilbur Fitzgerald

Timothy Michaels

Waitress

Jill Jane Clements

Kevin Kersey

Leland Jones

Woman with Baby

Angela Elayne Gibbs

Nurse

Libby Whittemore

Clerk (1955)

Don Henderson Baker

Man (1941)

Tony Vaughn

Another Boy

Jody Thompson

Ralph

Alex Van

Mr. Anderson

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Booker Palmer

Preston Wigasi Brant

Judge Bennett

Tom Even

State's Attorney

Mitchell Laurance

Bessie

Tonea Stewart

House Maid

Tina King

Dancer

Jermaine Jackson

Slave

Jevon Dewand

Bar Patron

Carrie Collins

Dock Worker #2

Joe Cobb Jr.