Hilary Swank as Alice Paul

Vera Farmiga as Ruza Wenclawska

Anjelica Huston as Carrie Chapman Catt

Molly Parker as Emily Leighton

Margo Martindale as Harriot Blatch

Frances O'Connor as Lucy Burns

Lois Smith as Reverend Anna Howard Shaw

Brooke Smith as Mabel Vernon

Adilah Barnes as Ida Wells-Barnett

Laura Fraser as Doris Stevens

Julia Ormond as Inez Millholland

Patrick Dempsey as Ben Weissman

Joseph Adams as Senator Thomas 'Tom' Leighton

Bob Gunton as President Woodrow Wilson