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Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician and supervisor Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson , mathematician and engineer Kevin Costner as Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group (STG)
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Character List. Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson. Mary Jackson. Literary Devices. Themes. Motifs. Symbols. Quotes by Theme. Dorothy Vaughan. Previous Next. Dorothy Vaughan was a gifted student who grew up to be a brilliant mathematician. She is a pioneer as one of the Black women who worked as a human computer at Langley.
Dorothy Vaughan Character Analysis. Dorothy Vaughan is a strong-minded, black mathematician who joins Langley as a human computer in 1943 and then works her way up to become the organization’s first black section head. She is extremely pragmatic and fiercely devoted to her church and her children.
Jan 24, 2017 · Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008) Vaughan joined the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943 after beginning her career as a math teacher in Farmville, Virginia.
Monáe, Taraji P. Henson (Johnson) and Octavia Spencer (Vaughn) capture key elements of their characters, such as Vaughn’s leadership, Johnson’s knack with analytical geometry and Jackson’s ...
Feb 28, 2017 · Hidden Figures tells the story of these three African-American mathematicians; Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. During the Cold War, the trio worked at Nasa’s Langley...
In Hampton, Virginia, in 1961, an adult Katherine (Taraji P. Henson), now Katherine Goble, is stuck on the side of the road with the two co-workers she carpools with, Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe). A racist police officer stops and asks for identification.
