Sally Field as Norma Rae

Beau Bridges as Sonny

Ron Leibman as Reuben

Pat Hingle as Vernon

Barbara Baxley as Leona

Gail Strickland as Bonnie Mae

Morgan Paull as Wayne Billings

Robert Broyles as Sam Bolen

John Calvin as Ellis Harper

Booth Colman as Dr. Watson

Lee de Broux as Lujan

James Luisi as George Benson

Vernon Weddle as Reverend Hubbard

Gilbert Green as Al Landon

Bob Minor as Lucius White

Grace Zabriskie as Linette Odum

Stuart Culpepper as Ray Towner

Mary Munday as Mrs. Johnson

Jack Stryker as J.J. Davis

Gregory Walcott as Lamar Miller

Noble Willingham as Leroy Mason

Lonny Chapman as Gardner

Bert Freed as Sam Dakin

Bob Hannah as Jed Buffum

Edith Ivey as Louise Pickens

Scott Lawton as Craig

Frank McRae as James Brown

Gerry Okuneff as Pinkerton Man

Gina Kaye Pounders as Millie

Henry Slate as Policeman

Melissa Ann Wait as Alice

Joe Dorsey as Woodrow Thompson

Sherry Velvet Foster as Velma Stackhouse

Weona T. Brown as Hot Dog Vendor

Carolyn Danforth as Mavis Pruitt

James W. Harris as Mill Worker

Charlie Briggs as Warren Latting

Billie Joyce Buck as Agnes Roy

Fred Covington as Alston Purvis

J. Don Ferguson as Peter Gallat

Sandra Dorsey as Jail Matron

Harold E. Finch as Agent

Clayton Landey as Teddy Bob Keeler

Bill Pannell as Billy Stettin

George R. Robertson as Farmer

Thomas D. Samford III as Justice of the Peace

Roy Tatum as Woodrow Bowser

Paul Ellen as TV Reporter (uncredited)

Jerry Michael Ray as TV Reporter (uncredited)

Martin Ritt as Factory Worker (uncredited)