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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.
Apr 17, 2017 · ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’: TV Review. Oprah Winfrey stars as the daughter of a woman who inadvertently advanced medical science in the tepid HBO melodrama 'The Immortal Life of ...
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May 12, 2010 · Alan Ball has teamed with Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films to produce an HBO telepic based on the new bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The non-fiction tome by science journo Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Lacks, a poor Baltimore mother of five who died of cervical cancer in 1951 at age 31.
Apr 22, 2017 · The TV movie focuses on Henrietta's daughter Deborah (Oprah Winfrey) as she seeks to learn more about her mother (Renée Elise Goldsberry) and how her cancerous cells became a part of medical breakthroughs with the help of journalist Rebecca Skloot (Rose Byrne) in this adaptation of Skloot's book of the same name.
Oprah Winfrey stars in the true story of a woman's search for enlightenment about her mother--whose 'immortal' cells would save millions of lives. Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line, known as HeLa.
Jun 5, 2017 · In this case, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is both. Winfrey rarely gets involved in a project unless it has something to say and this one is no different.
