Cast

• Halle Berry
  Halle Berry
  Halle Berry is an American actress and a former fashion model. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming...
  
   — Dorothy Dandridge
  Dorothy Dandridge
  Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an American actress and popular singer, and was the first African-American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress...
  
  
• Brent Spiner
  Brent Spiner
  Brent Jay Spiner is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and four subsequent films. His portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact and of Dr...
  
   — Earl Mills
• Klaus Maria Brandauer
  Klaus Maria Brandauer
  Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...
  
   — Otto Preminger
  Otto Preminger
  Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...
  
  
• Obba Babatundé
  Obba Babatunde
  Obba Babatundé is an American actor of stage and screen, known for his Emmy-nominated performance in the television movie Miss Evers' Boys, a NAACP Image Award-nominated performance in the TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and a Tony Award-nominated role for his performance as C.C...
  
   — Harold Nicholas
  Harold Nicholas
  Harold Lloyd Nicholas was an American dancer specializing in tap. He was the younger half of the world famous tap dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers, known as two of the world's greatest dancers. His older brother was Fayard Nicholas...
  
  
• Loretta Devine
  Loretta Devine
  Loretta Devine is an American stage, film and television actress known for her roles on Boston Public, Grey's Anatomy, and Eli Stone. She also provided her voice for the stop motion animated television series The PJs. Devine is a NAACP Image Award and Emmy award winning actress.-Early life:Devine...
  
   — Ruby Dandridge
  Ruby Dandridge
  Ruby Dandridge was an American actress from the early 1900s to the 1950s. She is best known for her radio work in her early days of acting....
  
  
• Cynda Williams
  Cynda Williams
  Cynda Williams is an American television and film actress.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois as Cynthia Williams, she was known by her birth name of Cindy Williams until she started her film career...
  
   — Vivian Dandridge
  Vivian Dandridge
  Vivian Alferetta Dandridge was a singer and actress. She is best known as the sister of actress Dorothy Dandridge and the daughter of character actress Ruby Dandridge...
  
  
• LaTanya Richardson — Auntie
• Tamara Taylor
  Tamara Taylor
  Tamara Taylor is a Canadian television actress.Born in Toronto to a black Canadian father and a Scottish Canadian mother, her most famous role is that of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, on the forensic crime drama Bones...
  
   — Geri Branton-Nicholas
• William Atherton
  William Atherton
  William Atherton , born William Atherton Knight II, is an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:Atherton was born in Orange, Connecticut, the son of Roby and Robert Atherton Knight...
  
   — Darryl Zanuck
• D. B. Sweeney
  D. B. Sweeney
  Daniel Bernard "D. B." Sweeney is an American actor.-Early life:Sweeney was born on Long Island, New York and raised in Shoreham by an educator father and a municipal government employee mother. He attended Shoreham-Wading River High School and both Tulane and New York University...
  
   — Jack Denison
• Don Gettinger — Hotel Clerk
• Nicholas Hormann — Oscar Emcee
• Sharon Brown
  Sharon Brown (actress)
  Sharon Brown is an American actress of stage, film and television.She was born in New York City, New York, and is the daughter of actor Johnny Brown, who portrayed Nathan Bookman on the 1970s sitcom Good Times...
  
   — Etta Jones
  Etta Jones
  Etta Jones was an American jazz singer. She is not to be confused with the more popular singer Etta James nor her namesake, a member of the Dandridge Sisters, who recorded with Jimmy Lunceford and was Gerald Wilson's first wife. Her best known recordings were "Don't Go To Strangers" and "Save...
  
  
• Darrian C Ford — Fayard Nicholas
• Jon Mack
  Jon Mack
  Jon Mack is an American actress, musician, and model. She is best known for her role as Ava Gardner in the 1999 biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. She is also the lead singer of the band Auradrone.- Personal life :...
  
   - Ava Gardner
  Ava Gardner
  Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress.She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers . She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day...
  
  
• Kerri Randles
  Kerri Randles
  Kerri Lee Randles is an American actress, writer and producer.- Early life :Randles was born in Decatur, Illinois, the daughter of Virginia, a secretary, and Terry, a business owner. She attended the University of Illinois at Chicago with an art scholarship but soon switched her major to Theatre...
  
   - Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
  
  
• Vocalist Wendi Williams provides the singing voice for Dorothy Dandridge

Awards and nominations

• Best Actress — Halle Berry (won)
• Best Film (won)
• Best Supporting Actor — Obba Babatundé (nominated)
• Best Supporting Actor — Brent Spiner (nominated)

• Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television — Martha Coolidge
  Martha Coolidge
  Martha Coolidge is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. -Career:Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Ms. Coolidge first made her reputation by directing many award winning documentaries in New York before moving out to Hollywood in 1976. She spent several...
  
   (nominated)

• Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)
• Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)
• Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)
• Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)
• Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie — Halle Berry (won)
• Outstanding Choreography — (nominated)
• Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special — Martha Coolidge
  Martha Coolidge
  Martha Coolidge is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. -Career:Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Ms. Coolidge first made her reputation by directing many award winning documentaries in New York before moving out to Hollywood in 1976. She spent several...
  
   (nominated)
• Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie — Klaus Maria Brandauer (nominated)

• Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV — Halle Berry (won)
• Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (nominated)
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV — Klaus Maria Brandauer (nominated)

• Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special — Halle Berry (won)
• Outstanding Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special (won)
• Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special — Obba Babatundé (nominated)

• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries — Halle Berry (won)