Where You’ve Seen The Cast Of Showtime’s "The First Lady" Before
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Showtime's new miniseries, The First Lady, focuses on the lives of three former First Ladies — Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Packed with rich talent in every frame, the series follows the political career of their respective husbands with a special emphasis on how these ladies influenced them and how the White House influenced these ladies.
The series boasts of a stellar cast, and let me make the introductions:
O-T Fagbenle as Barack Obama
Where have you seen him: Breaking and Entering, Black Widow, The Handmaid’s Tale, Maxxx, and WeCrashed.
Viola Davis as Michelle Obama
Where have you seen her: The Help, How to Get Away with Murder, Doubt, Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Suicide Squad, and The Suicide Squad.
Jayme Lawson as young Michelle Obama
Where have you seen her: Farewell Amor and The Batman
Lexi Underwood as Malia Obama
Saniyya Sidney as Sasha Obama
Regina Taylor as Marian Shields Robinson
Where have you seen her: Lovecraft Country, Saturday Church, Dig, The Unit, and The Education of Max Bickford.
Aaron Eckhart as Gerald Ford
Where have you seen him: The Dark Knight, Erin Brockovich, Paycheck, Olympus Has Fallen, Sully, Midway, Line of Duty, Thank You for Smoking, and The Black Dahlia.
Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford
Where have you seen her: I Am Sam, Scarface, Batman Returns, Dark Shadows, Married to the Mob, What Lies Beneath, Dangerous Liaisons, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Stardust, and Murder on the Orient Express.
Kristine Froseth as young Betty Ford
Where have you seen her: Rebel in the Rye, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, The Society, The Assistant, Looking for Alaska, and Low Tide.
Dakota Fanning as Susan Ford
Where have you seen her: Man on Fire, The Twilight Saga, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I Am Sam, Uptown Girls, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte’s Web.
Kiefer Sutherland as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Where have you seen him: 24, The Contractor, The Lost Boys, Young Guns, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, The Three Musketeers, A Time to Kill, Dark City, Phone Booth, Melancholia, Pompeii, and Flatliners.
Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt
Where have you seen her: The X-Files, The Crown, The Fall, The House of Mirth, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, The Last King of Scotland, Any Human Heart, Great Expectations, Hannibal, Bleak House, and Viceroy’s House.
Rhys Wakefield as Dick Cheney
Where have you seen him: True Detective, The Purge, Reprisal, Sanctum, and The Black Balloon.
Judy Greer as Nancy Howe
Where have you seen her: Arrested Development, Love & Other Drugs, What Women Want, Jawbreaker, War for the Planet of the Apes, Halloween, and Halloween Kills.
Lily Rabe as Lorena Hickok
Where have you seen her: The Tender Bar, Fractured, Vice, The Veil, Finding Steve McQueen, and American Horror Story.
Eliza Scanlen as young Eleanor Roosevelt
Where have you seen her: Sharp Objects, Fires, Babyteeth, Little Women, and Old.
Kathleen Garrett as Laura Bush
Where have you seen her: Inventing Anna, The Deuce, Billions, and FBI.
Derek Cecil as Donald Rumsfeld
Where have you seen him: House of Cards, Banshee, Pasadena, and The Outsider.
Rosalind Chao as Tina Tchen
Where have you seen her: AfterMASH, The Joy Luck Club, The O.C., Thousand Pieces of Gold, The Laundromat, and Mulan.
Kate Mulgrew as Susan Sher
Where have you seen her: Star Trek: Voyager, Orange Is the New Black, Ryan’s Hope, Mercy, and Mr. Mercedes.
Jeremy Bobb as Theodore Roosevelt
Where have you seen him: Jessica Jones, The Outsider, Russian Doll, Mosaic, The Knick, and Mr. Robot.
