No Country For Old Men (film) - Cast

Cast

• Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, a laconic, soon-to-retire county sheriff on the trail of Chigurh and Moss.
• Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh, a hitman hired to recover the missing money. The directors sought an actor "who could have come from Mars", and introduce the character, typical of their "Unstoppable Evil" archetype, in a manner reminiscent of The Man Who Fell to Earth. For this morally serious story, they wanted to avoid comparisons to the Terminator and now he seems a "modern equivalent of Death from Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal." Bardem had been a Coens' fan since he saw their debut, Blood Simple, but he had to endure a distinctive haircut, derived from a 1979 book supplied by Jones that featured photos of brothel patrons on the Texas-Mexico border. The strange hair left the actor's "psyche... affected," Bardem says, "in a very delicate way," and, convinced he would not get laid for two months, too depressed to leave his house.
• Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, a welder and Vietnam veteran who flees with two million dollars in drug money that he finds in an open field in Texas.
• Kelly Macdonald as Carla Jean Moss, Llewelyn Moss' wife. Despite having severe misgivings about her husband's plans to keep the money, she still supports him. Macdonald said that what attracted her to the character of Moss was that she "wasn't obvious. She wasn't your typical trailer trash kind of character. At first you think she's one thing and by the end of the film, you realize that she's not quite as naïve as she might come across."
• Woody Harrelson as Carson Wells, a cocky bounty hunter and acquaintance of Chigurh, also hired to recover the drug money.
• Garret Dillahunt as Deputy Wendell, Bell's inexperienced deputy sheriff assisting in the investigation and providing comic relief.
• Tess Harper as Loretta Bell, the sheriff's wife, who provides reassurance in his darker moods.
• Barry Corbin as Ellis, a retired deputy shot in the line of duty and now wheelchair-bound. He acts as a straight-talking sounding board to his nephew, Bell.
• Beth Grant as Agnes, Carla Jean's mother and the mother-in-law of Moss. She provides comic relief despite the fact that she is dying from "the cancer."
• Stephen Root as the man who hires Chigurh, Wells (only mentioned in passing as a possible party to the original drug deal), and the Mexicans.
• Gene Jones as Thomas Thayer, an elderly rural gas station clerk with good fortune, as his call on Anton's coin flip saves his life.
• Brandon Smith as a stern INS official wearing sunglasses as he guards the U.S.-Mexican border. He lets Moss cross once he learns he was in the Vietnam War.