Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch

Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode

Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison

Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode

Cicely Tyson as Sipsey

Stan Shaw as Big George

Chris O'Donnell as Buddy Threadgoode

Gailard Sartain as Ed Couch

Timothy Scott as Smokey Lonesome

Gary Basaraba as Grady Kilgore

Lois Smith as Mama Threadgoode

Jo Harvey Allen as Woman's Awareness Teacher

Fannie Flagg as Teacher

Suzi Bass as Nurse

Tom Even as Judge

Afton Smith as Leona Threadgoode

Haynes Brooke as Older Julian Threadgoode

Wallace Merck as KKK Man

Richard Riehle as Reverend Scroggins

Constance Shulman as Missy

Nick Searcy as Frank Bennett

Macon McCalman as Prosecutor Percy

Raynor Scheine as Sheriff Curtis Smoote

Grace Zabriskie as Eva Bates

Reid Binion as Young Julian Threadgoode

Danny Nelson as Papa Threadgoode

Nancy Moore Atchison as Little Idgie Threadgoode

Ginny Parker as Ruth's Mother

Tres Holton as Boy at Supermarket

Ron McCall as Ocie

David Dwyer as Hooded Man

Lashondra Phillips as Young Naughty Bird

Kathy Larson as Beetle Girl #1

Missy Wolff as Beetle Girl #2

LaTanya Richardson Jackson as Janeen

Grayson Fricke as Buddy Threadgoode Jr.

Enjolik Oree as Older Naughty Bird

Genevieve Fisher as Peggy Hadley

Bob Hannah as Defense Attorney

Ted Manson as Bailiff

Carol Mitchell-Leon as Sue Otis

Evan Lockwood as Tim