Denzel Washington as Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard

Annette Bening as Elise Kraft / Sharon Bridger

Bruce Willis as Major-General William Devereaux

Tony Shalhoub as Agent Frank Haddad

Sami Bouajila as Samir Nazhde

Aasif Mandvi as Khalil Saleh

Mark Valley as FBI Agent Mike Johanssen

Jack Gwaltney as Fred Darius

David Proval as Danny Sussman

Lance Reddick as FBI Agent Floyd Rose

Wood Harris as Officer Henderson

David Costabile as Fingerprint Expert

Said Faraj as Sleeper terrorist

Christian Chase as Prisoner

Chip Zien as Chief of Staff

Ahmed Ben Larby as Sheik Achmed Bin Talal

Lianna Pai as Tina Osu

Jacqueline Antaramian as Najiba Haddad

Donna Hanover as District Attorney

Dakin Matthews as Senator Wright

John Rothman as Congressman Marshall

John Henry Cox as Speaker of the House

E. Katherine Kerr as Attorney General

Jimmie Ray Weeks as Army General

Will Lyman as FBI Director

Victor Slezak as Colonel Hardwick

Chris Messina as Corporal

Susie Essman as Protest Speaker

Arianna Huffington as Capitol Week Pundit

Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Diana Naftal as Injured Woman

Ben Shenkman as Kaplan, INS

Dakin Matthews as Congressman Marshall

Ray Godshall Sr. as CIA Director

Gilbert Rosales as Mechanic

Amro Salama as Tariq Husseini

Jim Shankman as ACLU Lawyer

Matt Servitto as Journalist #1

Jourdan Fremin as Journalist #2

Anjua Warfield-Maximo as March Organizer

Jeff Beatty as Undercover FBI Agent

Rory J. Aylward as Lieutenant

Robert Scheer as Capitol Week Pundit

Matt Miller as Capitol Week Pundit

Ali Afshar as Ali

John Beard as Newscaster

Stan Brooks as Newscaster

Alex Chadwick as Newscaster

Epi Colon as Newscaster

Judy de Angelis as Newscaster

Luis Jimenez as Newscaster

Sean Hannity as Newscaster

Ron Kuby as Newscaster

Daniel Schorr as Newscaster

Curtis Sliwa as Newscaster

Susan Stamberg as Newscaster

Mary Alice Williams as Newscaster

Mike Akrawi as Terrorist (uncredited)

Michael Arthur as Army Major (uncredited)

Lisa Masters as Reporter #2 (uncredited)

Robin Anne Phipps as Crying Girl on Monitor (uncredited)

Valeria Von Leczycki Goncharova Barrett as Screaming Woman in Silver Gown (uncredited)

William Hill as INS Uniform

Craig 'Radio Man' Castaldo as

Neal Jones as NYPD Representative