The Birth of a Nation Cast

Nate Parker

as Nat Turner

Actor Nate Parker can thank a chance encounter for setting him on a path to stardom. After driving his aspiring model girlfriend to Texas for a gig in 2000, he was spotted by a manager named Jon...

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Armie Hammer

as Samuel Turner

Born in Los Angeles, Armand Douglas Hammer grew up in Dallas, Los Angeles and the Cayman Islands, where he was a student at Grace Christian Academy, a school his father founded. Back in...

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Jackie Earle Haley

as Raymond Cobb

Starting out as a kid actor at the age of five, Jackie Earle Haley made appearances on several of the top TV series of the early 1970s, including The Waltons, The Partridge Family, Marcus Welby, M.D....

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Gabrielle Union

as Esther

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Union grew up with an interest in law. She was a talented sportswoman who excelled in soccer and basketball since the age of eight, and even played on the Nebraska...

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Penelope Ann Miller

as Elizabeth Turner

Penelope Ann Miller is the daughter of Mark Miller, a writer/filmmaker/actor who is best known for his role as the dad in the 1960's sitcom Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1965). Her older sister is...

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Mark Boone Jr.

as Reverend Walthall

MARK BOONE JR. Date of Birth: March 17, 1955

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Aunjanue Ellis

as Nancy Turner

AUNJANUE ELLIS Date of Birth: February 21, 1969

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