Cast and Crew of John Adams

John Adams

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

Main Cast of John Adams

Paul Giamatti

as John Adams (7 episodes)

Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an American actor. Giamatti began his career as a supporting ac...

Laura Linney

as Abigail Adams (7 episodes)

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, includin...

Stephen Dillane

as Thomas Jefferson (7 episodes)

Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is an English actor. He won a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stop...

Danny Huston

as Samuel Adams (7 episodes)

Daniel Sallis Huston (born May 14, 1962) is an American actor and director. Description above from the Wikipedia art...

David Morse

as George Washington (7 episodes)

David Bowditch Morse (born October 11, 1953) is an American stage, television, and film actor. He first came to natio...

Sarah Polley

as Abigail Adams Smith (7 episodes)

Tom Wilkinson

as Benjamin Franklin (7 episodes)

Steven Hinkle

as Young John Quincy Adams (7 episodes)

Madeline Taylor

as Young Nabby Adams (7 episodes)

John Dossett

as Benjamin Rush (7 episodes)

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

as John Quincy Adams (7 episodes)

Ebon Moss-Bachrach (born March 19, 1977) is an American actor.

Samuel Barnett

as Thomas Adams (7 episodes)

Andrew Scott

as Colonel William Smith (7 episodes)

Andrew Scott is an Irish actor. He achieved widespread recognition for playing the role of Jim Moriarty in the BBC se...

Kevin Trainor

as Charles Adams (7 episodes)

Mamie Gummer

as Sally Smith Adams (7 episodes)

Secondary Cast of John Adams

Boris McGiver

as Robert Goddard (1 episode)

Boris McGiver is an American stage and screen actor. He holds an MFA in Acting from the Tisch School of Arts at New Y...

John Bedford Lloyd

as Richard Palmes (1 episode)

John Bedford Lloyd was born on January 2, 1956 and is currently 68 years old.

Ritchie Coster

as Captain Preston (1 episode)

Ritchie Coster (born 1 July 1967) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Dietrich Banning in ...

Guy Henry

as Jonathan Sewall (1 episode)

Guy Henry (born 17 October 1960) is a British stage and screen actor, best known for his roles in Rome and John Adams...

Justin Theroux

as John Hancock (2 episodes)

Justin Paul Theroux is an American actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with film director David Lyn...

Bill Buell

as Justice Lynde (1 episode)

Clancy O'Connor

as Edward Rutledge (1 episode)

Brennan Brown

as Robert Treat Paine (2 episodes)

Brennan Brown is an actor.

Tom Beckett

as Elbridge Gerry (2 episodes)

Vincent Renart

as Andrew Holmes (1 episode)

Ed Jewett

as James Duane (1 episode)

Del Pentecost

as General Henry Knox (1 episode)

Neal Huff

as Captain John Tucker (1 episode)

Neal Huff is an American stage and screen actor. He received his MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York Un...

Jean-Hugues Anglade

as Comte de Vergennes (1 episode)

Tom Hollander

as King George III (1 episode)

Thomas Anthony Hollander (born 25 August 1967) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre, winning the Ian C...

Judith Magre

as Madame Helvétius (2 episodes)

Cyril Descours

as Edmund Charles Genet (1 episode)

Alan Cox

as William Maclay (1 episode)

Hugh O'Gorman

as Thomas Pinckney (1 episode)

Jack Gwaltney

as John Marshall (1 episode)

John Keating

as Timothy Pickering (2 episodes)

Caroline Corrie

as Louisa Catherine Adams (1 episode)

Jason Butler Harner

as Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (1 episode)

Jason Butler Harner is an actor.

Zak Orth

as James McHenry (1 episode)

Zak Orth (born October 15, 1970) is an American comedic actor known for his roles in Wet Hot American Summer, The Bax...

Crew of John Adams

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