Gerard Butler as Jake Lawson

Alexandra Maria Lara as Ute Fassbinder

Jim Sturgess as Max Lawson

Abbie Cornish as U.S. Secret Service Agent Sarah Wilson

Ed Harris as U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom

Andy García as U.S. President Andrew Palma

Zazie Beetz as Dana

Eugenio Derbez as Al Hernandez

Robert Sheehan as Duncan Taylor

David S. Lee as Lead Henchman Rico

Talitha Eliana Bateman as Hannah Lawson

Daniel Wu as Cheng Long

Adepero Oduye as Eni Adisa

Amr Waked as Ray Dussette

Richard Schiff as Virginia Senator Thomas Cross

Billy Slaughter as Karl Dright

Tom Choi as Chinese Representative Lee

Mare Winningham as Dr. Jennings

Daniella Garcia as Mickey

Ritchie Montgomery as Mike

Judd Lormand as Richard Hill

Corey Mendell Parker as Lammy

Catherine Ashton as British Tech

Arnold Chun as Japanese Tech

Randall Newsome as Vice President Miller

Sean Paul Braud as Dixon

Anastasiya Rul as Russian Woman

Julia Denton as Hannah's Mom

Carlos Antonio as Uniformed Guard

Joe Drago as Senior NASA Tech

Douglas M. Griffin as NASA Tech (Mission Control)

Blake Burt as UN Private (as Blake C. Burt)

Derek Roberts as Major Collner

Randy Havens as Trey Grant

Thomas Burke as Retrieval Bay Tech

Edgar Leza as NASA Guard (uncredited)

Aaron Mitchell as Uniformed Secret Service Agent (uncredited)