Meet the Cast of the Roots


Find out who is in the cast of Roots plus their other shows and movies.

Cast List

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The following actors are featured in Roots

LeVar Burton
Also starred in: The Jesse Owens Story , The Hunter , Ali
Ed Asner
Also starred in: Gone in the Night - Part 1 , M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters , Love Meet Hope
Georg Stanford Brown
Also starred in: The Jesse Owens Story , The Comedians , House Party 2: The Pajama Jam! (1991)
Maya Angelou
Also starred in: The Black Candle: A Kwanzaa Celebration , How to Make an American Quilt , Poetic Justice
Moses Gunn
Also starred in: Amityville II: The Possession , The Women Of Brewster Place , Charlotte Forten's Mission
Thalmus Rasulala
Also starred in: Blacula , Bucktown , Friday Foster
Ren Woods
Also starred in: Car Wash , Xanadu , Youngblood (1978)
Cicely Tyson
Also starred in: Jewel , A Fall from Grace , Sounder
O. J. Simpson
Also starred in: The Towering Inferno , Capricorn One , The Cassandra Crossing
Ralph Waite
Also starred in: The President's Man , Kid Blue , Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Also starred in: Carolina Skeletons , Not to Forget , A Fighting Man
Robert Reed
Also starred in: El Chico De La Burbuja De Plástico (Doblado) , The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Lorne Greene ... Marshall Cole
Also starred in: Earthquake , The Hard Man , Peyton Place
Lynda Day George
Also starred in: Chisum , Day of the Animals , Mission Impossible
Vic Morrow
Also starred in: Treasure of Matecumbe , 1990: The Bronx Warriors , Humanoids from the Deep
John Amos
Also starred in: TV in Black: The First Fifty Years , Coming 2 America , Christmas in Miami
Madge Sinclair
Also starred in: Leadbelly , Convoy , Coming to America
Olivia Cole
Also starred in: The Women Of Brewster Place , The Sky Is Gray , Heroes (1977)
Leslie Uggams
Also starred in: NANNY , Poor Pretty Eddie , Sugar Hill (1994)
Chuck Connors
Also starred in: The Rifleman , Tourist Trap , Bunker of Blood 3: Death Heads: Brain Drain
Sandy Duncan
Also starred in: The Cat from Outer Space , The Million Dollar Duck , Star Spangled Girl
Ben Vereen
Also starred in: Pippin , Soldiers of Change , Time Out of Mind
Doug McClure
Also starred in: At the Earth's Core , Omega Syndrome , The People That Time Forgot
Lynne Moody
Also starred in: Scream Blacula Scream , Some Kind of Hero , Knots Landing
Burl Ives
Also starred in: So Dear to My Heart , Desire Under the Elms , Summer Magic

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