Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is an American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. Known for accuracy in computerized celestial navigation, her technical work at NASA spanned decades where she calculated the trajectories, launch windows and emergency back-up return paths for many flights from Project Mercury including the early NASA missions of John Glenn and Alan Shepard, the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, and continued work through the Space Shuttle program and on early plans for the Mission to Mars.
"Hidden Figures"
Synopsis:
While United States competed against Russia by lead to the man to the space, the NASA discovered the talent hidden of a group of women mathematics African-American that were them authentic brains after an of them major operations American of the history. Based in the incredible history real of three of these women, known as them "computers living", the film continues to these women so soon begin to ascend next to them large minds thinking of it NASA with the task of calculate the launch to the orbit of the astronaut John Glenn and ensure your return. Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson exceeded any limitation professional, of race or of gender while his talent and wish by achieve their dreams them catapulted as true heroines in the history of them United States.
Synopsis:
While United States competed against Russia by lead to the man to the space, the NASA discovered the talent hidden of a group of women mathematics African-American that were them authentic brains after an of them major operations American of the history. Based in the incredible history real of three of these women, known as them "computers living", the film continues to these women so soon begin to ascend next to them large minds thinking of it NASA with the task of calculate the launch to the orbit of the astronaut John Glenn and ensure your return. Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson exceeded any limitation professional, of race or of gender while his talent and wish by achieve their dreams them catapulted as true heroines in the history of them United States.
Cast
Taraji P. Henson ... Katherine Johnson
Octavia Spencer ... Dorothy Vaughan
Janelle Monáe ... Mary Jackson
Kevin Costner ... Al Harrison
Kirsten Dunst ... Vivian Michael
Jim Parsons ... Paul Stafford
Mahershala Ali ... Jim Johnson
Aldis Hodge ... Levi Jackson
Glen Powell ... John Glenn
Kimberly Quinn ... Ruth
Olek Krupa ... Karl Zielinski
Ken Strunk ... Jim Webb
Ariana Neal ... Joylette Johnson
Saniyya Sidney ... Constance Johnson
Zani Jones Mbayise ... Kathy Johnson
Tre Stokes ... Levi Jr.
Selah Kimbro Jones ... Carolyn Marie Jackson
Karan Kendrick ... Younger Joylette Coleman
Corey Mendell Parker ... Howard Vaughan
Alkoya Brunson ... Kenneth Vaughn
Ashton Tyler ... Leonard Vaughan
Lidya Jewett ... Young Katherine Coleman
Donna Biscoe ... Mrs. Joylette Coleman
Jaiden Kaine ... Joshua Coleman
Gregory Alan Williams ... Marion Smithson
Maria Howell ... Ms. Sumner
Arnell Powell ... Professor Graves
Ron Clinton Smith ... White Cop
Bob Bost ... Eisenhower
Crystal Lee Brown ... Bernie
Tequilla Whitfield ... Eleanor
Joe Knezevich ... Wind Tunnel Engineer
Robert McKay ... Pastor Ayres
Dane Davenport ... Alan Shepard
Evan Holtzman ... Deke Slayton
Travis Smith ... Scott Carpenter
Scott Michael Morgan ... Bill Calhoun
Rhoda Griffis ... White Librarian
Karen Wheeling Reynolds ... Court Clerk #1
Paul Ryden ... TV Reporter #1 at Cape Canaveral
Frank Hoyt Taylor ... Judge
John Atwood ... Newscaster #1
Wilbur Fitzgerald ... Senator Patrick
Michael Hartson ... Night School Professor
Bob Jennings ... Navy Officer
Gary Weeks ... Reporter at Press Conference
Afemo Omilami ... Man Outside Store
Cullen Moss ... Mission Control Commander
Jon Edwin Wright ... TV News Reporter
Kate Kneeland ... Court Clerk #2 (as Katie Kneeland)
Amy Tipton ... Woman Crying
Elijah Everett ... Crying Man
Chris Cavalier ... IBM Technician
Andre Pushkin ... Russian Scientist
Randall Newsome ... Russian Scientist #2
Kurt Krause ... Sam Turner
Howie Johnson ... Library Security Guard
Greg Tresan ... K9 Protest Cop
David Kallaway ... NASA Security Guard
Martin Luther King ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Other cast
Taraji P. Henson ... Katherine Johnson
Octavia Spencer ... Dorothy Vaughan
Janelle Monáe ... Mary Jackson
Kevin Costner ... Al Harrison
Kirsten Dunst ... Vivian Michael
Jim Parsons ... Paul Stafford
Mahershala Ali ... Jim Johnson
Aldis Hodge ... Levi Jackson
Glen Powell ... John Glenn
Kimberly Quinn ... Ruth
Olek Krupa ... Karl Zielinski
Ken Strunk ... Jim Webb
Ariana Neal ... Joylette Johnson
Saniyya Sidney ... Constance Johnson
Zani Jones Mbayise ... Kathy Johnson
Tre Stokes ... Levi Jr.
Selah Kimbro Jones ... Carolyn Marie Jackson
Karan Kendrick ... Younger Joylette Coleman
Corey Mendell Parker ... Howard Vaughan
Alkoya Brunson ... Kenneth Vaughn
Ashton Tyler ... Leonard Vaughan
Lidya Jewett ... Young Katherine Coleman
Donna Biscoe ... Mrs. Joylette Coleman
Jaiden Kaine ... Joshua Coleman
Gregory Alan Williams ... Marion Smithson
Maria Howell ... Ms. Sumner
Arnell Powell ... Professor Graves
Ron Clinton Smith ... White Cop
Bob Bost ... Eisenhower
Crystal Lee Brown ... Bernie
Tequilla Whitfield ... Eleanor
Joe Knezevich ... Wind Tunnel Engineer
Robert McKay ... Pastor Ayres
Dane Davenport ... Alan Shepard
Evan Holtzman ... Deke Slayton
Travis Smith ... Scott Carpenter
Scott Michael Morgan ... Bill Calhoun
Rhoda Griffis ... White Librarian
Karen Wheeling Reynolds ... Court Clerk #1
Paul Ryden ... TV Reporter #1 at Cape Canaveral
Frank Hoyt Taylor ... Judge
John Atwood ... Newscaster #1
Wilbur Fitzgerald ... Senator Patrick
Michael Hartson ... Night School Professor
Bob Jennings ... Navy Officer
Gary Weeks ... Reporter at Press Conference
Afemo Omilami ... Man Outside Store
Cullen Moss ... Mission Control Commander
Jon Edwin Wright ... TV News Reporter
Kate Kneeland ... Court Clerk #2 (as Katie Kneeland)
Amy Tipton ... Woman Crying
Elijah Everett ... Crying Man
Chris Cavalier ... IBM Technician
Andre Pushkin ... Russian Scientist
Randall Newsome ... Russian Scientist #2
Kurt Krause ... Sam Turner
Howie Johnson ... Library Security Guard
Greg Tresan ... K9 Protest Cop
David Kallaway ... NASA Security Guard
Martin Luther King ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Other cast