Kerry Washington as Anita Hill

Wendell Pierce as Clarence Thomas

Greg Kinnear as Joe Biden

Jeffrey Wright as Charles Ogletree

Eric Stonestreet as Ken Duberstein

Zoe Lister-Jones as Carolyn Hart

Grace Gummer as Ricki Seidman

Treat Williams as Ted Kennedy

Dylan Baker as Orrin Hatch

Erika Christensen as Shirley Wiegand

Alison Wright as Virginia Thomas

Bill Irwin as Senator Jack Danforth

Malcolm Gets as Arlen Specter

Peter McRobbie as Alan Simpson

Kimberly Elise as Sonia Jarvis

Jennifer Hudson as Angela Wright

Frank Hoyt Taylor as Strom Thurmond

Tom Virtue as Patrick Leahy

Peter Trencher as Paul Simon

Kristen Ariza as Judy Smith

Tom Nowicki as John Franks

Mary Rachel Quinn as Susan Deller Ross

Rhoda Griffis as Judith Resnik

Mystie Smith as Michelle Roberts

Donna Biscoe as Eleanor Holmes Norton

Natalie Karp as Barbara Boxer

Ed Amatrudo as Paul Minor