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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.
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Oprah WinfreyDeborah Lacks -
Rose ByrneRebecca Skloot -
Renée Elise GoldsberryHenrietta Lacks -
Reg E. CatheyZakariyyah -
Courtney B. VanceSir Lord Keenan Coefield -
Rocky CarrollSonny Lacks -
Leslie UggamsSadie -
Reed BirneyDr. George Gey -
John Douglas ThompsonLawrence Lacks -
Adriane LenoxBarbara Lacks -
Roger RobinsonDay Lacks -
John BeasleyCliff -
Peter GeretyPaul Lurz -
Gabriel EbertChristoph Lengauer -
John Benjamin HickeyBill Watson -
Ruben Santiago-HudsonDr. Roland Pattillo -
Byron JenningsDr. Victor McKusick -
Sylvia Grace CrimMary Kubicek -
Karen Wheeling ReynoldsMrs. Gey -
John C. VennemaBoard Administrator

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