Diana Ross as Billie Holiday

Billy Dee Williams as Louis McKay

Richard Pryor as Piano Man

James T. Callahan as Reg Hanley

Paul Hampton as Harry

Sid Melton as Jerry

Virginia Capers as Mama Holiday

Yvonne Fair as Yvonne

Isabel Sanford as The Madame

Tracee Lyles as The Prostitute

Ned Glass as The Agent

Milton Selzer as The Doctor

Norman Bartold as The Detective #1

Clay Tanner as The Detective #2

Jester Hairston as The Butler

Bert Kramer as The Policeman

Paul Micale as The Maitre d'

Michele Aller as The Singer

Byron Kane as The Announcer

Barbara Minkus as Radio Actress

Kay Lewis as Angela DeMarco

Helen Lewis as Debbie McGee

George Wyner as The M.C.

Shirley Melline as The Policewoman

Toby Russ as The Jail Guard

Larry Duran as Hood #1

Ernest Robinson as Hood #2

Don McGovern as Reporter #1

Dick Poston as Reporter #2

Charles Woolf as Reporter #3

Denise Denise as Denise

Lynn Hamilton as Aunt Ida

Victor Morosco as Vic

Robert L. Gordy as The Hawk

Harry Caesar as The Rapist

Paulene Myers as Mrs. Edson

Scatman Crothers as Big Ben