Hidden Figures
- Director: Theodore Melfi
- Writer: Allison Schroeder; Theodore Melfi
- Producer: Peter Chernin; Jamal Daniel
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As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as 'human computers', we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
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Cast & Characters
Taraji P. Henson as Katherine G. Johnson;
Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan;
Janelle Monae as Mary Jackson;
Kevin Costner as Al Harrison;
Kirsten Dunst as Vivian Mitchell;
Jim Parsons as Paul Stafford;
Mahershala Ali as Colonel Jim Johnson;
Aldis Hodge as Levi Jackson;
Glen Powell as John Glenn;
Kimberly Quinn as Ruth;
Olek Krupa as Karl Zielinski;
Kurt Krause as Sam Turner;
Ken Strunk as Jim Webb;
Lidya Jewett as Young Katherine Coleman;
Donna Biscoe as Mrs. Joylette Coleman