Cast
- Morgan Freeman as Theodore Joadson
- Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Buren
- Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams
- Djimon Hounsou as Sengbe Pieh / Cinqué
- Matthew McConaughey as Roger Sherman Baldwin
- David Paymer as Secretary of State John Forsyth
- Pete Postlethwaite as William S. Holabird
- Stellan Skarsgård as Lewis Tappan
- Razaaq Adoti as Yamba
- Abu Bakaar Fofanah as Fala
- Anna Paquin as Queen Isabella II
- Tomas Milian as Calderon
- Chiwetel Ejiofor as Ens. James Covey
- Derrick Ashong as Buakei
- Geno Silva as Ruiz
- John Ortiz as Montes
- Ralph Brown as Lieutenant Gedney
- Darren E. Burrows as Lieutenant Meade
- Allan Rich as Judge Juttson
- Paul Guilfoyle as Attorney
- Peter Firth as Captain Fitzgerald
- Xander Berkeley as Hammond
- Jeremy Northam as Judge Coglin
- Arliss Howard as John C. Calhoun
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- Austin Pendleton as Professor Gibbs
- Daniel von Bargen as Warden Pendleton
- Rusty Schwimmer as Mrs. Pendleton
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr. as General Espartero
- Harry Blackmun as Justice Joseph Story
- Frank T. Wells as Crier
- Michael Massee as prison guard
- Roy Cooper as Pickney
- Jake Weber as Mr. Wright
- Victor Rivas as Captain Ferrar
- Joseph Kosseh as Birmaja
- Steve Passewe as Cinque's in-law
- Sherly Acosta Williams as Cinque's wife
- Matt Sarles as young aide
- George Gerdes as Marshal
- Gerald R. Molen as magistrate
- Kevin J. O'Connor as missionary
- Robert Walsh as guardsman
- Sean McGuirk as courier
- Tony Owen as farmer
- Harry Groener as Tecora captain
- Hawthorne James as Creole cook
- Ingrid Walters as woman overboard with baby
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This was the second film for which Anthony Hopkins received an Academy Award nomination for playing a United States President, having previously been nominated in 1995 for playing Richard Nixon in Nixon.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun appears in the film as Justice Joseph Story.