Onder andere met: Jamie Foxx (Ray Charles), Kerry Washington (Della Bea Robinson), Regina King (Margie Hendricks), Clifton Powell (Jeff Brown), Harry J. Lennix (Joe Adams (as Harry Lennix)), Bokeem Woodbine (Fathead Newman), Aunjanue Ellis (Mary Ann Fisher), Sharon Warren (Aretha Robinson), C.J. Sanders (Young Ray Robinson), Curtis Armstrong (Ahmet Ertegun), Richard Schiff (Jerry Wexler), Larenz Tate (Quincy Jones), Terrence Dashon Howard (Gossie McKee), David Krumholtz (Milt Shaw), Wendell Pierce (Wilbur Brassfield),