Jane Alexander
Eleanor Roosevelt

Edward Herrmann
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Priscilla Pointer
Missy LeHand

Walter McGinn
Louis Howe

Rosemary Murphy
Sara Delano Roosevelt

Blair Brown
Anna Roosevelt

Mark Harmon
Robert Dunlap

David Healy
Theodore Roosevelt

Peggy McCay
Grace Tully

Donald Moffat
Harry Hopkins

Toni Darnay
Malvina Thompson

John Beal
Dr. Carr

Barbara Smith Conrad
Marian Anderson (as Barbara Conrad)

Morgan Farley
Bill Plog

Anna Lee
Laura Delano

Linda Kelsey
Lucy Mercer

Colin Hamilton
Ike Hoover

Ray Baker
James Roosevelt

Brian Patrick Clarke
John Roosevelt

Don Howard
Elliot Roosevelt

Joseph Hacker
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.

Charles Lampkin
Irvin McDuffie

Lindsay Crouse

Tina Cole
Singer

Cathy Cole
Singer

Ian Abercrombie
Whiting (uncredited)

Robert Banas
Choreographer (uncredited)

Douglas Nelson
Newspaper Man (uncredited)

David Lewis
Justice Hughes