The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

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Oprah Winfrey

Deborah Lacks

Rose Byrne

Rebecca Skloot

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Henrietta Lacks

Reg E. Cathey

Zakariyyah

Courtney B. Vance

Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

Rocky Carroll

Sonny Lacks

Leslie Uggams

Sadie

Reed Birney

Dr. George Gey

John Douglas Thompson

Lawrence Lacks

Adriane Lenox

Barbara Lacks

Roger Robinson

Day Lacks

John Beasley

Cliff

Peter Gerety

Paul Lurz

Gabriel Ebert

Christoph Lengauer

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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