
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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as Rebecca Skloot

as Henrietta Lacks

as Zakariyyah

as Sir Lord Keenan Coefield

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as Sadie

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as Lawrence Lacks

as Barbara Lacks

as Day Lacks

as Cliff

as Paul Lurz

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as Bill Watson

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as Dr. Victor McKusick

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