Selma (2014) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Ava DuVernay.

Cast

• David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King
• Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson
• Giovanni Ribisi as Lee White
• Tim Roth as Gov. George Wallace
• André Holland as Andrew Young
• Colman Domingo as Ralph Abernathy
• Common as James Bevel
• Stephan James as John Lewis
• Omar J. Dorsey as James Orange
• LaKeith Stanfield as Jimmie Lee Jackson
• Oprah Winfrey as Annie Lee Cooper
• Tessa Thompson as Diane Nash
• Cuba Gooding Jr. as Fred Gray
• Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Bayard Rustin
• Kent Faulcon as Sullivan Jackson
• Lorraine Toussaint as Amelia Boynton
• Alessandro Nivola as John Doar
• David Dwyer as Chief Wilson Baker
• E. Roger Mitchell as Frederick Reese
• Dylan Baker as J. Edgar Hoover
• Ledisi as Mahalia Jackson
• Niecy Nash as Richie Jean Jackson
• Corey Reynolds as Rev. C.T. Vivian
• Wendell Pierce as Rev. Hosea Williams
• Charity Jordan as Viola Lee Jackson
• Nigel Thatch as Malcolm X
• Trai Byers as James Forman
• Stan Houston as Sheriff Jim Clark
• Jeremy Strong as James Reeb
• Tara Ochs as Viola Liuzzo
• Stephen Root as Col. Al Lingo
• Greg Maness as Aide
• Haviland Stillwell as President's Secretary
• Charles Black as Elder Marcher
• Jody Thompson as White Marcher
• Henry G. Sanders as Cager Lee
• Montrel Miller as Young Marcher
• Jim France as Gunnar Jahn
• Michael Papajohn as Major Cloud

Crew

• Ava DuVernay — Director
• Paul Webb — Writer
• Bradford Young — Director of Photography
• Christian Colson — Producer
• Dede Gardner — Producer
• Jeremy Kleiner — Producer
• Oprah Winfrey — Producer
• Jason Moran — Original Music Composer
• Ava DuVernay — Writer

Movies like Selma

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• The Great Debaters (2007)
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• The Long Walk Home (1990)
• All the Way (2016)
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