'Lincoln': Meet the Cast

Who's who in Steven Spielberg's ensemble? Compare actors with historical figures they play in new film, beginning with Daniel Day-Lewis as Honest Abe

Published on November 28, 2011

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Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of United States

Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, heartbroken and erratic First Lady of the United States

Gulliver McGrath (Hugo) as Lincoln's youngest son, Tad

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Lincoln's eldest surviving son, Robert

Gloria Reuben (ER) as Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln's personal modiste and confidante

David Strathairn as William Seward of New York, a former Republican rival who became Lincoln's trusted Secretary of State

Bruce McGill (Cinderella Man) as Edwin Stanton of Ohio, an ambitious politician who became Lincoln's forceful Secretary of War

Richard Topol (The Practice) as James Speed of Kentucky, Lincoln's attorney general

Grainger Hines as Gideon Welles of Connecticut, a leading abolitionist and Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

Dakin Matthews (True Grit) as John Usher of Indiana, a former legal colleague of Lincoln and the president's Secretary of the Interior

Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, a staunch abolitionist and powerful Republican congressman from Pennsylvania

S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order) as Lydia Smith, Thaddeus Stevens' housekeeper and confidante

Jeremy Strong (The Messenger) as John Nicolay of Illinois, Lincoln's private secretary

Joseph Cross (Running With Scissors) as John Hay of Illinois, Lincoln's assistant private secretary

Hal Holbrook (The Firm) as Francis Preston Blair of Maryland, an aging but influential behind-the-scenes power broker

Julie White (Transformers) as Elizabeth Blair Lee, well-connected daughter of Francis Preston Blair

Byron Jennings (Liberty! The American Revolution) as Montgomery Blair of Maryland, a Republican firebrand from the Blair political dynasty who served as Lincoln?s Postmaster General

Jared Harris (Mad Men) as Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois, victorious commanding general of the Union Army

Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) as Alexander Stephens of Georgia, vice-president of the Confederacy

Gregory Itzin (24) as John Campbell of Alabama, the former Supreme Court justice who resigned and became the Assistant Secretary of War for the Confederacy

James Spader as W.N. Bilbo, a political operative

Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) as Richard Schell of New York, a political operative

John Hawkes (Deadwood) as Robert Latham, a political operative