Nick Nolte

Thomas Jefferson

Greta Scacchi

Maria Cosway

Thandiwe Newton

Sally Hemings

Gwyneth Paltrow

Patsy Jefferson

Jean-Pierre Aumont

D'Hancarville

Simon Callow

Richard Cosway

Seth Gilliam

James Hemings

James Earl Jones

Madison Hemings

Michael Lonsdale

Louis XVI

Nancy Marchand

Madame Abbesse

Charlotte de Turckheim

Marie Antoinette

Lambert Wilson

Marquis de Lafayette

Vincent Cassel

Camille Desmoulins

Steve Kalfa

Dr. Guillotin

Jessica Lloyd

Julia

Todd Boyce

William Short

Nigel Whitmey

John Trumbull

Nicolas Silberg

Monsieur Petit

Elsa Zylberstein

Adrienne de Lafayette

William Moseley

George Washington de Lafayette

Vernon Dobtcheff

King's Translator

Daniel Mesguich

Mesmer

Thibault de Montalembert

Assistant

Beatrice Winde

Mary Hemings

Tim Choate

Reporter