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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Cast

205 cast members · 87 with popularity data
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Sorted by Buzz Score · April 30, 2026
1
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
14.5
#82 overall
2
Adrian Grenier
Self · 1 eps
9.0
#199 overall
3
Sean Combs
Self · 1 eps
6.1
#414 overall
4
Robert Downey Jr.
Self · 1 eps
5.4
#514 overall
5
Ben Affleck
Self · 1 eps
5.4
#516 overall
6
Stephen King
Self · 1 eps
4.5
#746 overall
7
Jessica Alba
Self · 1 eps
4.4
#788 overall
8
Sting
Self · 2 eps
4.4
#790 overall
9
Bernie Sanders
Self · 1 eps
4.4
#794 overall
10
Sally Field
Self · 2 eps
4.1
#867 overall
11
Tina Fey
Self · 2 eps
4.1
#891 overall
12
Paul Rudd
Self · 1 eps
3.8
#1,001 overall
13
Dustin Hoffman
Self · 1 eps
3.7
#1,025 overall
14
Bill O'Reilly
Self · 1 eps
3.7
#1,041 overall
15
Christopher Walken
Self · 1 eps
3.7
#1,072 overall
16
Kevin Bacon
Self · 1 eps
3.6
#1,104 overall
17
Patricia Arquette
Self · 1 eps
3.5
#1,149 overall
18
Fred Armisen
Self · 1 eps
3.5
#1,166 overall
19
Samuel L. Jackson
Self · 1 eps
3.2
#1,334 overall
20
Carole King
Self · 1 eps
3.2
#1,353 overall
21
Larry David
Self · 1 eps
3.1
#1,363 overall
22
Neil Patrick Harris
Self · 1 eps
3.1
#1,388 overall
23
Angela Bassett
Self · 2 eps
3.1
#1,426 overall
24
Ted Danson
Self · 1 eps
3.0
#1,464 overall
25
Kyra Sedgwick
Self · 1 eps
3.0
#1,511 overall
26
Carmelo Anthony
Self · 1 eps
2.9
#1,573 overall
27
LL Cool J
Self · 1 eps
2.9
#1,577 overall
28
Mary Steenburgen
Self · 1 eps
2.9
#1,594 overall
29
Julianna Margulies
Self · 1 eps
2.8
#1,676 overall
30
Sterling K. Brown
Self · 1 eps
2.7
#1,722 overall
31
Martha Stewart
Self · 1 eps
2.6
#1,804 overall
32
John McCain
Self · 1 eps
2.6
#1,896 overall
33
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Self · 1 eps
2.5
#2,003 overall
34
William H. Macy
Self · 1 eps
2.3
#2,171 overall
35
Cory Booker
Self · 1 eps
2.2
#2,402 overall
36
Richard Branson
Self · 1 eps
2.1
#2,501 overall
37
Nas
Self · 2 eps
2.1
#2,510 overall
38
Carly Simon
Self · 1 eps
2.0
#2,631 overall
39
Condoleezza Rice
Self · 1 eps
2.0
#2,712 overall
40
Bill Maher
Self · 1 eps
2.0
#2,721 overall
41
Derek Jeter
Self · 2 eps
1.9
#2,801 overall
42
Anderson Cooper
Self · 2 eps
1.8
#2,980 overall
43
Michelle Rodriguez
Self · 1 eps
1.7
#3,116 overall
44
Alan Dershowitz
Self · 2 eps
1.7
#3,226 overall
45
John Lewis
Self · 1 eps
1.6
#3,564 overall
46
Shonda Rhimes
Self · 1 eps
1.5
#3,745 overall
47
Billie Jean King
Self · 1 eps
1.5
#3,778 overall
48
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Self · 1 eps
1.5
#3,819 overall
49
John Legend
Self · 1 eps
1.4
#4,100 overall
50
Barbara Walters
Self · 1 eps
1.2
#4,570 overall
51
Jon Batiste
Self · 1 eps
1.2
#4,705 overall
52
Courtney B. Vance
Self · 1 eps
1.2
#4,769 overall
53
Gloria Steinem
Self · 1 eps
1.2
#4,862 overall
54
Harry Connick Jr.
Self · 1 eps
1.2
#4,868 overall
55
David Sedaris
Self · 1 eps
1.0
#5,528 overall
56
Gaby Hoffmann
Self · 1 eps
1.0
#5,761 overall
57
Gloria Reuben
Self · 1 eps
1.0
#5,918 overall
58
Robert Downey Sr.
Self · 1 eps
1.0
#5,940 overall
59
Ken Burns
Self · 1 eps
0.9
#6,105 overall
60
Margaret Cho
Self · 1 eps
0.8
#6,903 overall
61
Wanda Sykes
Self · 1 eps
0.8
#7,174 overall
62
Khandi Alexander
Self · 1 eps
0.8
#7,317 overall
63
Frank Gehry
Self · 1 eps
0.7
#7,507 overall
64
George Stephanopoulos
Self · 2 eps
0.7
#8,022 overall
65
Deepak Chopra
Self · 1 eps
0.7
#8,266 overall
66
Norman Lear
Self · 1 eps
0.6
#8,451 overall
67
Tony Kushner
Self · 2 eps
0.6
#9,095 overall
68
Sanjay Gupta
Self · 1 eps
0.5
#9,937 overall
69
Ana Navarro
Self · 1 eps
0.5
#10,492 overall
70
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host · 126 eps
0.5
#10,792 overall
71
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Self · 1 eps
0.5
#11,047 overall
72
Rick Warren
Self · 1 eps
0.4
#12,985 overall
73
Tom Colicchio
Self · 2 eps
0.4
#13,203 overall
74
Sasheer Zamata
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#13,357 overall
75
Anna Deavere Smith
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#13,549 overall
76
Ming Tsai
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#13,685 overall
77
Bryant Gumbel
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#14,415 overall
78
Maya Lin
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#14,746 overall
79
Branford Marsalis
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#14,840 overall
80
Donna Brazile
Self · 1 eps
0.2
#17,337 overall
81
Janet Mock
Self · 1 eps
0.2
#20,008 overall
82
Rebecca Lobo
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#21,950 overall
83
Naomi Foner
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#22,023 overall
84
Suzanne Malveaux
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#23,088 overall
85
Linda Chavez
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#29,240 overall
86
Azar Nafisi
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#29,454 overall
87
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Self · 1 eps
0.0
#46,597 overall
88
Kara Walker
Self · 1 eps
—
89
Geoffrey Canada
Self · 1 eps
—
90
Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Self · 1 eps
—
91
Yasir Qadhi
Self · 1 eps
—
92
Ruth Simmons
Self · 1 eps
—
93
Margarett Cooper
Self · 1 eps
—
94
Ben Jealous
Self · 1 eps
—
95
Valerie Jarrett
Self · 2 eps
—
96
Deval Patrick
Self · 1 eps
—
97
Aarón Sánchez
Self · 2 eps
—
98
Sandra Cisneros
Self · 1 eps
—
99
Oswald Mosley
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
—
100
Tonya Lewis Lee
Self · 1 eps
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