Gerard Butler as Mike Banning

Aaron Eckhart as President Benjamin Asher

Angela Bassett as Lynne Jacobs

Morgan Freeman as Alan Trumbull

Melissa Leo as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan

Robert Forster as General Edward Clegg

Sean O'Bryan as NSA Deputy Director Ray Monroe

Radha Mitchell as Leah Banning

Jackie Earle Haley as Deputy Chief Mason

Charlotte Riley as MI6 Jacquelin Marshall

Mehdi Dehbi as Sultan Mansoor

Colin Salmon as Chief Hazard

Alon Aboutboul as Aamir Barkawi

Jorge Leon as Secret Service

Waleed Zuaiter as Kamran Barkawi

Adel Bencherif as Raza Mansoor

Shivani Ghai as Amal Mansoor

Michael Wildman as Agent Voight

Bryan Larkin as SAS Lieutenant

Penny Downie as Home Secretary Rose Kenter

Patrick Kennedy as MI5 Intel John Lancaster

Deborah Grant as Doris

Andrew Pleavin as Agent Bronson

Nigel Whitmey as Canadian Prime Minister Robert Bowman

Julia Montgomery Brown as Bowman's Wife

Alex Giannini as Antonio Gusto

Elsa Mollien as Viviana Gusto

Philip Delancy as Jacques Mainard

Nikesh Patel as Pradhan

Nancy Baldwin as German Chancellor Agnes Bruckner

Terence Beesley as Fire Dept. Head

Kemi-Bo Jacobs as Intel Officer

Simon Harrison as Intel Officer 2

Guy Williams as PM Leighton Clarkson

Tsuwayuki Saotome as Japanese PM Tsutomu Nakushima

Sadao Ueda as Driver

Tim Woodward as General

Martin Petrushev as UAV Reaper Pilot

Owen Davis as JSOC Officer

Lucy Newman-Williams as Aide

Julian Kostov as Aide

Stacy Shane as Stern Faced Advisor

Terry Randall as Met Police Colleague

Jean Baptiste Fillon as Steward

Simon Connolly as Marine One Pilot 1

Scott Sparrow as Marine One Pilot 2

Ginny Holder as EMT / MED Dept. Head

Boyan Anev as Bad Guy

Stephen Parker as Air Force One Pilot (uncredited)