Avery Brooks

Solomon Northup

Rhetta Greene

Jenny

Mason Adams

Ford

Emory Beasley

Alonzo

Kent Broadhurst

Bass

Lee Bryant

Mrs. Epps

Charles Darden

Robert

Tony Dreyspool

Senator Soule

Anthony Edenfield

Ned

Art Evans

Walton

J. Don Ferguson

Freeman

Ralph Flanders

Captain

Tanzia Franks

Elizabeth

Harry George

Sheriff

Ann Pearl Gray

Kelsey

Janet League

Eliza

Charles McGhee

Luke

Jay McMillan

Harry

Danny Nelson

Chapin

John D. Northup

Sherrill

Ralph Pace

Birch

Petronia Paley

Anne Northup

Randal Patrick

Sailor

J.C. Quinn

Tibeats

John Saxon

Epps

Gerhard Schwisow

Manning

Joe Seneca

Noah

Michael Tolan

Henry Northup

Willie Woods

Shad

David Keith Anderson

Alonzo (uncredited)

Don Devendorf

Plantation Owner (uncredited)

Robert Oliveri

Boy (uncredited)