The cast is as renowned as the people they portray.
Showtime’s new miniseries, The First Lady, focuses on the lives of three former First Ladies — Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Packed with rich talent in every frame, the series follows the political career of their respective husbands with a special emphasis on how these ladies influenced them and how the White House influenced these ladies.
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The series boasts of a stellar cast, and let me make the introductions:
O.T. Fagbenle as Barack Obama
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Where have you seen him: Breaking and Entering, Black Widow, The Handmaid’s Tale, Maxxx, and WeCrashed.
Viola Davis as Michelle Obama
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Where have you seen her: The Help, How to Get Away with Murder, Doubt, Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Suicide Squad, and The Suicide Squad.
Jayme Lawson as young Michelle Obama
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Where have you seen her: Farewell Amor and The Batman
Lexi Underwood as Malia Obama
Saniyya Sidney as Sasha Obama
Regina Taylor as Marian Shields Robinson
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Where have you seen her: Lovecraft Country, Saturday Church, Dig, The Unit, and The Education of Max Bickford.
Aaron Eckhart as Gerald Ford
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Where have you seen him: The Dark Knight, Erin Brockovich, Paycheck, Olympus Has Fallen, Sully, Midway, Line of Duty, Thank You for Smoking, and The Black Dahlia.
Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford
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Where have you seen her: I Am Sam, Scarface, Batman Returns, Dark Shadows, Married to the Mob, What Lies Beneath, Dangerous Liaisons, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Stardust, and Murder on the Orient Express.
Kristine Froseth as young Betty Ford
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Where have you seen her: Rebel in the Rye, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, The Society, The Assistant, Looking for Alaska, and Low Tide.
Dakota Fanning as Susan Ford
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Where have you seen her: Man on Fire, The Twilight Saga, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I Am Sam, Uptown Girls, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte’s Web.
Kiefer Sutherland as Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Where have you seen him: 24, The Contractor, The Lost Boys, Young Guns, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, The Three Musketeers, A Time to Kill, Dark City, Phone Booth, Melancholia, Pompeii, and Flatliners.
Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt
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Where have you seen her: The X-Files, The Crown, The Fall, The House of Mirth, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, The Last King of Scotland, Any Human Heart, Great Expectations, Hannibal, Bleak House, and Viceroy’s House.
Rhys Wakefield as Dick Cheney
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Where have you seen him: True Detective, The Purge, Reprisal, Sanctum, and The Black Balloon.
Judy Greer as Nancy Howe
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Where have you seen her: Arrested Development, Love & Other Drugs, What Women Want, Jawbreaker, War for the Planet of the Apes, Halloween, and Halloween Kills.
Lily Rabe as Lorena Hickok
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Where have you seen her: The Tender Bar, Fractured, Vice, The Veil, Finding Steve McQueen, and American Horror Story.
Eliza Scanlen as young Eleanor Roosevelt
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Where have you seen her: Sharp Objects, Fires, Babyteeth, Little Women, and Old.
Kathleen Garrett as Laura Bush
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Where have you seen her: Inventing Anna, The Deuce, Billions, and FBI.
Derek Cecil as Donald Rumsfeld
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Where have you seen him: House of Cards, Banshee, Pasadena, and The Outsider.
Rosalind Chao as Tina Tchen
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Where have you seen her: AfterMASH, The Joy Luck Club, The O.C., Thousand Pieces of Gold, The Laundromat, and Mulan.
Kate Mulgrew as Susan Sher
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Where have you seen her: Star Trek: Voyager, Orange Is the New Black, Ryan’s Hope, Mercy, and Mr. Mercedes.
Jeremy Bobb as Theodore Roosevelt
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Where have you seen him: Jessica Jones, The Outsider, Russian Doll, Mosaic, The Knick, and Mr. Robot.
