Discover what you are made of
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
April 22, 2017
Harpo Films, Cine Mosaic
60 people
Oprah Winfrey
Deborah Lacks
Acting
Rose Byrne
Rebecca Skloot
Acting
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Henrietta Lacks
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Reg E. Cathey
Zakariyyah
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Courtney B. Vance
Sir Lord Keenan Coefield
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Rocky Carroll
Sonny Lacks
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Leslie Uggams
Sadie
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Reed Birney
Dr. George Gey
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John Douglas Thompson
Lawrence Lacks
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Adriane Lenox
Barbara Lacks
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Roger Robinson
Day Lacks
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John Beasley
Cliff
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