Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt

Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt

Priscilla Pointer as Missy LeHand

Walter McGinn as Louis Howe

Rosemary Murphy as Sara Delano Roosevelt

Blair Brown as Anna Roosevelt

Mark Harmon as Robert Dunlap

David Healy as Theodore Roosevelt

Peggy McCay as Grace Tully

Donald Moffat as Harry Hopkins

Toni Darnay as Malvina Thompson

John Beal as Dr. Carr

Barbara Smith Conrad as Marian Anderson (as Barbara Conrad)

Morgan Farley as Bill Plog

Anna Lee as Laura Delano

Linda Kelsey as Lucy Mercer

Colin Hamilton as Ike Hoover

Ray Baker as James Roosevelt

Brian Patrick Clarke as John Roosevelt

Don Howard as Elliot Roosevelt

Joseph Hacker as Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.

Charles Lampkin as Irvin McDuffie

Lindsay Crouse as

Tina Cole as Singer

Cathy Cole as Singer

Ian Abercrombie as Whiting (uncredited)

Robert Banas as Choreographer (uncredited)

Douglas Nelson as Newspaper Man (uncredited)

David Lewis as Justice Hughes