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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (TV Movie 2017) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Apr 20, 2017 · The movie, also titled “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” was directed by George C. Wolfe, who had a starry cast at his disposal headed by Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne. It tells a rich ...
Apr 17, 2017 · April 17, 2017 9:10am. There’s a great story to be told about Henrietta Lacks, the African-American tobacco farmer who, in 1951, had a tissue sample removed, without her knowledge or consent ...
He left his ten children when their mother died. · Lawrence Lacks —Henrietta and Day’s firstborn child. · Loretta Pleasant —Henrietta’s birth name. · Tommy Lacks —Henrietta and Day’s grandfather who raised both of them. · Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman (born Joe Lacks) —Henrietta and Day’s fifth child. Henrietta was diagnosed ...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Apple TV (CA) Available on Prime Video, Crave, Telus TV+. In 1951, cancerous cells from Henrietta Lacks lead to medical breakthroughs that change the face of medicine forever. Drama 2017 1 hr 32 min. 69%.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the fantastic true story of HeLa cells - an immortal cell line used by researchers to develop many of science's biggest medical breakthroughs. These cells were unknowingly harvested from a woman named Henrietta, an African-American woman who died from cervical cancer in the 1950s.
Edit page. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Directed by George C. Wolfe. With Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sylvia Grace Crim, Reed Birney, Karen Wheeling Reynolds. An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
