Morgan Freeman

as Theodore Joadson

Nigel Hawthorne

as Martin Van Buren

Anthony Hopkins

as John Quincy Adams

Djimon Hounsou

as Cinque

Matthew McConaughey

as Roger Sherman Baldwin

David Paymer

as Secretary John Forsyth

Pete Postlethwaite

as Holabird

Stellan Skarsgård

as Tappan