Amistad (film) - Cast

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
  • 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

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.

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