The United States vs. Billie Holiday

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Released on
Music, Drama, History
Runtime
131 mins
(267 votes)

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

Cast

  • Andra Day
  • Trevante Rhodes
  • Garrett Hedlund
  • Leslie Jordan
  • Miss Lawrence
  • Adriane Lenox
  • Natasha Lyonne
  • Rob Morgan
  • Da'Vine Joy Randolph
  • Evan Ross
  • Tyler James Williams
  • Tone Bell
  • Blake DeLong
  • Dana Gourrier
  • Melvin Gregg
  • Erik LaRay Harvey
  • Ray Shell
  • Dusan Dukic
  • Koumba Ball
  • Kate MacLellan
  • Kwasi Songui
  • Letitia Brookes
  • Warren 'Slim' Williams
  • Orville Thompson
  • Jeff Corbett
  • Damian Joseph Quinn
  • Robert Alan Beuth
  • Randy Davison
  • Kevin Hanchard
  • Jono Townsend
  • Morgan Moore
  • Arlen John Bonnar
  • Furly Mac
  • Andrew Zadel
  • Tristan D. Lalla
  • Alex Bisping
  • Don Anderson
  • Amanda Strawn
  • Charleine Charles
  • Sylvia Stewart
  • Daphné Archer
  • Anita Lee
  • Tony Chao
  • Linda Sauvé
  • Alain Goulem
  • Ramona Clyke
  • Laurent Beaudin
  • Alika Autran
  • Kim Feeney
  • Diana Carmen Ratycz
  • Richard Jutras
  • Jonathan Higgins
  • Marc Essertaize
  • Nealla Gordon
  • Len Blavatnik
  • Christopher Ricardo Price
  • Taryn Brown
  • Zuri Hawkins
  • Elizabeth Eveillard
  • Clauter Alexandre
  • Penande Estime
  • Elikya Tupula
  • Nefertari Zanyah Brewster-Griffith
  • Joe Cobden
  • Ronda Louis-Jeune
  • Maxime Paradis
  • Sarah Levesque
  • Donald Fullilove

Director

  • Lee Daniels

Producers

  • Lee Daniels
  • Joe Roth
  • Jeff Kirschenbaum
  • Jordan Fudge
  • Pamela Oas Williams
  • Tucker Tooley

Screenwriter

  • Suzan-Lori Parks

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