The premium cabler made the announcement on Monday. Oprah Winfrey, Alan Ball, Peter Macdissi, Carla Gardini and Lydia Dean Pilcher executive produce. Oprah Winfrey will star in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which has been greenlit by HBO Films. Now that we know its premiere date, a first trailer/teaser is likely just around the corner. Wolfe directs from his screenplay adaptation of Skloot’s book. Pattillo, a doctor and professor of gynecology who facilitated Rebecca Skloot’s (Byrne) communication with the Lacks family Thompson plays Lawrence, Henrietta’s oldest son and Deborah’s older brother Lenox is Barbara, Lawrence’s wife who helped raised Deborah and Sonny (Carroll) after Henrietta’s death and finally Robinson is Day Lacks, Henrietta’s widower and father of their children. George Gey, the scientist who harvested the HeLa cells from Henrietta (Goldsberry) Santiago-Hudson is Dr. Vance plays Sir Lord Keenan Kester Cofield, a slick Southern con artist who tries to insert himself into the Lacks’ legal matters Uggams is Sadie, Henrietta’s cousin and best friend Cathey plays Zakariyya, Henrietta’s youngest son and Deborah’s (Winfrey) brother Birney is Dr. Cathey, Reed Birney, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, John Douglas Thompson, Adriane Lenox, Kyanna Simone Simpson and Roger Robinson. Vance, Leslie Uggams, Rocky Carroll, Rose Byrne, Reg E. Joining Winfrey in front of the camera are some stellar actors including Renee Elise Goldsberry, Courtney B. Its a story of medical arrogance and triumph, race. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks (played by Winfrey), the film chronicles her search to learn about the mother she never knew and understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks’ cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Gets Premiere Date from HBO. The film tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Oprah Winfrey stars in this adaptation of Rebecca Skloot’s critically acclaimed, bestselling nonfiction book of the same name. bGzJC8KztsĪs you can see in the above tweet, HBO has set an April 22 premiere date for its film adaptation of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” An April debut makes it very much eligible for Primtetime Emmy consideration this year (the eligibility period ends May 2017). The Immortal Life of #HenriettaLacks premieres April 22. and Rose Byrne star in the adaptation of the critically-acclaimed book. HeLa has helped build thousands of careers, not to mention more than 60,000 scientific studies, with nearly 10 more being published every day, revealing the secrets of everything from aging and cancer to mosquito mating and the cellular effects of the environment.‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ – Deborah Lacks (Oprah Winfrey) mourns for the mother she never knew Boasting an exceptional cast and production team, and based on Rebecca Skloots critically acclaimed 2010 nonfiction best-seller of the same name, this HBO. Scientists have grown some 50 million metric tons of her cells, and you can get some for yourself simply by calling an 800 number. Meanwhile Lacks, a vivacious 31-year-old African-American who had once been a tobacco farmer, tended her five children and endured scarring radiation treatments in the hospital.After Henrietta Lacks’s death, HeLa went viral, so to speak, becoming the godmother of virology and then biotech, benefiting practically anyone who’s ever taken a pill stronger than aspirin. HeLa became an instant biological celebrity, traveling to research labs all over the world. Removed during a biopsy and cultured without her permission, the HeLa cells (named from the first two letters of her first and last names) reproduced boisterously in a lab at Johns Hopkins - the first human cells ever to do so. Even before killing Lacks herself in 1951, they took on a life of their own. From the very beginning there was something uncanny about the cancer cells on Henrietta Lacks’s cervix.
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