Cast
- Viggo Mortensen, as Frank Hopkins, a great long-distance rider
- Zuleikha Robinson, as Jazira, determined and headstrong daughter of the Sheikh
- Omar Sharif, as Sheikh Riyadh, an insightful leader. He owns and breeds Arabian horses of the Al Khamsa bloodline.
- Louise Lombard, as Lady Anne Davenport, British aristocrat who bets her horse against Hopkins
- Adam Alexi-Malle, as Aziz, emissary and the Sheikh's attaché
- Saïd Taghmaoui, as Prince Bin Al Reeh, Jazira's cousin who wishes to marry her by force
- Silas Carson, as Katib
- Harsh Nayyar, as Yusef
- J.K. Simmons, as Buffalo Bill Cody
- Adoni Maropis, as Sakr
- Victor Talmadge, as Rau Rasmussen
- Peter Mensah, as Jaffa, Jazira's personal guard
- Joshua Wolf Coleman, as The Kurd
- Franky Mwangi, as Slave Boy
- Floyd Red Crow Westerman, as Chief Eagle Horn, a member of Hopkins' Lakota nation, performing with him in the Wild West Show
- Elizabeth Berridge, as Annie Oakley
- C. Thomas Howell, as Preston Webb
- David Midthunder, as Black Coyote
- Malcolm McDowell, as Major Davenport (uncredited)
Read more about this topic: Hidalgo (film)
Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“What is the use of “good” painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Shoals of corpses shall witness, mute, even to generations to come, before the eyes of men that we ought never, being mortal, to cast our sights too high.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“If one does not cast a big net, one cannot catch big fish.”
—Chinese proverb.