Lee Daniels’ The Butler
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Carey
- In Mariah Carey: Other acting roles and music projects

Her later film credits include Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) and Girls Trip (2017). She also lent her voice to All I Want for Christmas Is You (2017), an animated film inspired by her hit song. Carey also had cameos in such films as Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)…
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Fonda
- In Jane Fonda

…Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011), Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), and This Is Where I Leave You (2014). In 2009 Fonda returned to Broadway, after a 46-year absence, to portray a dying musicologist in 33 Variations. She also had a recurring role on the television drama The Newsroom (2012–14).
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Gooding
- In Cuba Gooding, Jr.

…the White House kitchen in Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), and portrayed civil-rights lawyer Fred Gray in Ava DuVernay’s Selma (2014). Gooding also appeared in the 2015 TV miniseries The Book of Negroes and portrayed O.J. Simpson in the acclaimed TV series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story…
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Kravitz
- In Lenny Kravitz: Career

…Games: Catching Fire (2013), and The Butler (2013) and the shows Better Things in 2016 and Star in 2016–17. His business endeavor Kravitz Design Inc. took on numerous design projects for condominiums, hotels, and private residences. In 2022 Kravitz and Brazilian actress and singer Anitta were named Most Beautiful Vegan…
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Rickman
- In Alan Rickman

…Turpin; and in Lee Daniels’s The Butler (2013), as U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan. Rickman supplied his distinctive low voice to Marvin, the Paranoid Android, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and to the Blue Caterpillar in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016).
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“We Shall Overcome”
- In We Shall Overcome: Legal matters and the public domain

…the producers of the film Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), who had wanted to use the song in the film but found the cost charged by the copyright holders, music publishers The Richmond Organization and Ludlow Music, to be prohibitive.
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Whitaker
- In Forest Whitaker

…Cecil Gaines in the film Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), and he later played Colonel Weber in the science fiction movie Arrival (2016), as well as the rebel militant Saw Gerrera in the Star Wars spinoff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). He later had a recurring role (2017–18)…
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Williams
- In Robin Williams

Eisenhower in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. The TV series The Crazy Ones, in which he played the head of an ad agency, premiered later that year; it was canceled in 2014. In the comedy The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014), Williams portrayed a man who attempts to…
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Winfrey
- In Oprah Winfrey: The Oprah Winfrey Show and films

…Frog (2009), and appeared in Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013). Selma (2014), a film about Martin Luther King, Jr., that Winfrey produced and also appeared in, was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture. She subsequently starred in the HBO TV movie The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017),…
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