Arrival (2016) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Denis Villeneuve.

Cast

• Amy Adams as Louise Banks
• Jeremy Renner as Ian Donnelly
• Forest Whitaker as Colonel Weber
• Michael Stuhlbarg as Agent Halpern
• Mark O'Brien as Captain Marks
• Tzi Ma as General Shang
• Abigail Pniowsky as 8-Year-Old Hannah
• Julia Scarlett Dan as 12-Year-Old Hannah
• Jadyn Malone as 6-Year-Old Hannah
• Frank Schorpion as Dr. Kettler
• Lucas Chartier-Dessert as Private Lasky
• Christian Jadah as Private Combs
• Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld as CNAC Anchor
• Andrew Shaver as Environmental Tech
• Pat Kiely as Environmental Tech
• Sonia Vigneault as Dr. J. Bydwell
• Mark Camacho as Richard Riley
• Sabrina Reeves as Press Secretary
• Julian Casey as Australian Scientist
• Tony Robinow as British Scientist
• Larry Day as CIA Officer Dan Ryder
• Matthew Willson as Preacher
• Ruth Chiang as Chinese Scientist
• Russell Yuen as Chinese Scientist
• Sergiy Marchenko as Russian Officer
• Anana Rydvald as Swedish Scientist
• Bineyam Girma as Sudan Representative
• Abdelghafour Elaaziz as African Representative
• Abdul Ayoola as Sierra Leone Representative
• Alex M. Yeuh as Japanese Minister
• Daniel Esteban as Venezuelan Representative
• Albert Kwan as Chinese Man
• Brittany Teo as Student with Smartphone
• Joe Cobden as Cryptographer
• Lorne Brass as Cryptographer
• Genevieve Sirois as Cryptographer
• Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon as Science Team Member
• Michael Nangreaves as Science Team Member
• Reda Guerinik as Communications Operator
• Adrien Benn as Communications Operator

Crew

• Denis Villeneuve — Director
• Eric Heisserer — Screenplay
• Dan Levine — Producer
• Shawn Levy — Producer
• Karen Lunder — Producer
• Aaron Ryder — Producer
• David Linde — Producer
• Bradford Young — Director of Photography
• Jóhann Jóhannsson — Original Music Composer
• Dan Cohen — Producer

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