Cast

Nick Nolte
Thomas Jefferson

Greta Scacchi
Maria Cosway

Thandiwe Newton
Sally Hemings

Gwyneth Paltrow
Patsy Jefferson

Jean-Pierre Aumont
D'Hancarville

Simon Callow
Richard Cosway

Seth Gilliam
James Hemings

James Earl Jones
Madison Hemings

Michael Lonsdale
Louis XVI

Nancy Marchand
Madame Abbesse

Charlotte de Turckheim
Marie Antoinette

Lambert Wilson
Marquis de Lafayette

Vincent Cassel
Camille Desmoulins

Steve Kalfa
Dr. Guillotin
Jessica Lloyd
Julia

Todd Boyce
William Short

Nigel Whitmey
John Trumbull

Nicolas Silberg
Monsieur Petit

Elsa Zylberstein
Adrienne de Lafayette

William Moseley
George Washington de Lafayette

Vernon Dobtcheff
King's Translator

Daniel Mesguich
Mesmer

Thibault de Montalembert
Assistant

Beatrice Winde
Mary Hemings

Tim Choate
Reporter

Ismail Merchant
Royal Indian Man

Scott Thrun
Head and Heart Game
Crew

James Ivory
Director
(Directing)

Ismail Merchant
Producer
(Production)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Writer
(Writing)
Donald Rosenfeld
Executive Producer
(Production)
Celestia Fox
Casting
(Production)

Richard Robbins
Original Music Composer
(Sound)
Bernadette Saint Loubert
Set Decoration
(Art)
John Bright
Costume Design
(Costume & Make-Up)
Guy-Claude François
Production Design
(Art)

Joanna Merlin
Casting
(Production)
Sylvie Brocheré
Casting
(Production)
Thierry François
Art Direction
(Art)

Jenny Beavan
Costume Design
(Costume & Make-Up)
Andrew Marcus
Editor
(Editing)
Isabelle Lorente
Editor
(Editing)

Pierre Lhomme
Director of Photography
(Camera)

Humbert Balsan
Co-Producer
(Production)
Paul Bradley
Executive Producer
(Production)
Evelyne Byot
Makeup Department Head
(Costume & Make-Up)
Anne-Marie Demeur
Makeup Artist
(Costume & Make-Up)
Bernard Floch
Makeup Artist
(Costume & Make-Up)
Lydia Pujols
Makeup Artist
(Costume & Make-Up)
Carol Hemming
Makeup Artist
(Costume & Make-Up)
Marie-France Thibault
Hairstylist
(Costume & Make-Up)

François Groult
Sound
(Sound)