Jena Malone
Young Ellie
Jodie Foster
Ellie Arroway
Angela Bassett
Rachel Constantine
Peter Jackson
Additional Visual Effects
John Hurt
S. R. Hadden
Tom Skerritt
David Drumlin
Valorie Armstrong
Woman Senator
Rob Lowe
Richard Rank
Robert Zemeckis
Director, Producer
James Woods
Michael Kitz
Delaney Williams
Believer #1 (uncredited)
David Morse
Ted Arroway
Leo Lee
Major Domo
J.A. Preston
Senator (uncredited)
Carin-Anne Strohmaier
First Assistant Editor
Sue Fox
Supervising ADR Editor
Randy Thom
Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
John P. Cazin
Pyrotechnician
Mark O'Kane
Steadicam Operator
François Duhamel
Still Photographer
Robin Gammell
Project Official
Paul L. Nolan
Ellie's Attorney (uncredited)
David St. James
Joint Chief
Jay Leno
Jay Leno
Carl Sagan
Novel, Co-Producer, Story
Neal Matarazzo
Kitz's Aide (uncredited)
Robert E. Denne
Standby Painter
William B. Kaplan
TV Interviewer (uncredited), Production Sound Mixer
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Haynes Brooke
Drumlin Aide
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel
Tony Sereno
Foley Mixer
Hallie D'Amore
Key Makeup Artist
Yuji Okumoto
Electrical
Richardson Morse
Mission Doctor
Tim Monich
Dialect Coach
Mark S. Miller
Visual Effects Producer
Kirk A. Holland
Transportation Captain
William Jordan
Chairman of Joint Chiefs
Marc Macaulay
NASA Technician
Steven C. McGee
Chief Lighting Technician
Larry King
Larry King
Alan Silvestri
Original Music Composer
Steven Ford
Major Russell
M. Scott McKee
Compositing Supervisor
Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz
Temp Sound Editor
Boris Lee Krutonog
Astronaut (uncredited)
Gary Archer
Prosthetics
Candice T. Cain
Supporter (uncredited)
Catherine Dao
Life Support
Alex Veadov
Russian Cosmonaut
Steven J. Boyd
Associate Producer
Alison C. Rosa
Second Second Assistant Director
Gary Rizzo
Sound Re-Recording Mixer, Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Julia Rivas Frey
Visual Effects Producer
Mo Henry
Negative Cutter