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: Battered , Reading Rainbow , And the Children Shall Lead
Ed Asner
Also starred in: Sam Cade , Kate's Secret , The Cops Are Robbers
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 Ballad of Greenwich Village , The Black Candle , How to Make an American Quilt
Moses Gunn
Also starred in: The House of Dies Drear , The Women Of Brewster Place , Brother Future
Thalmus Rasulala
Also starred in: Born American , The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , Good Times
Ren Woods
Also starred in: Car Wash , Xanadu , Youngblood (1978)
Cicely Tyson
Also starred in: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , The River Niger , Jewel
O. J. Simpson
Also starred in: The Towering Inferno , Capricorn One , The Cassandra Crossing
Ralph Waite
Also starred in: Angel City , The President's Man , Spirit
Louis Gossett Jr.
Also starred in: Carolina Skeletons , On the Streets of LA , In His Father's Shoes
Robert Reed
Also starred in: Murder, She Wrote , Hunter , Father Knows Best
Lorne Greene ... Marshall Cole
Also starred in: Earthquake , The Hard Man , Peyton Place
Lynda Day George
Also starred in: Day of the Animals , Mortuary , Pieces
Vic Morrow
Also starred in: Dirty Mary Crazy Larry , Evictors , Humanoids From The Deep
John Amos
Also starred in: American Flyers , Two Evil Eyes (Restored Version) , TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Madge Sinclair
Also starred in: Leadbelly , Convoy , Coming to America
Olivia Cole
Also starred in: The Women Of Brewster Place , Brewster Place , Murder, She Wrote
Leslie Uggams
Also starred in: Dotty & Soul , NANNY , New Amsterdam
Chuck Connors
Also starred in: The Rifleman , The Proud And The Damned , The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Sandy Duncan
Also starred in: Pinocchio , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , ALF
Ben Vereen
Also starred in: Amy's Victory Dance , Pippin , Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Doug McClure
Also starred in: Play The Men From Shiloh , Satan's Triangle , The Fall Guy
Lynne Moody
Also starred in: A Fight for Jenny , Murder, She Wrote , 21 Jump Street
Burl Ives
Also starred in: The McMasters , Little House on the Prairie , So Dear to My Heart

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