The Reagans - Cast

Cast

• James Brolin – Ronald Reagan
• Judy Davis – Nancy Reagan
• Luc Nantel – Luc Nantel, chef of Maison d'Herelle
• Zeljko Ivanek – Michael Deaver, Deputy White House Chief of Staff 81-85
• Mary Beth Peil – Edith Davis, Nancy's mother
• Bill Smitrovich – Alexander Haig, Secretary of State 81-82
• Shad Hart – Ron Reagan, son
• Zoie Palmer – Patti Davis, daughter
• Richard Fitzpatrick – Ben Weldon
• Vlasta Vrana – Edwin Meese, Counselor to the President, member of the National Security Council 81-85, and United States Attorney General 85-88
• Francis Xavier McCarthy – Dr. Loyal Davis
• Frank Moore – Don Regan, Secretary of the Treasury 81-85 and White House Chief of Staff 85-87
• Aidan Devine – Bill Shelby
• John Stamos – John Sears, Deputy counsel to Richard Nixon and campaign manager for Reagan in 76 bid and briefly in his successful 80 campaign
• Stewart Bick – Lew Wasserman, Hollywood agent and Democratic Party fundraiser who was a life long mentor/friend to Ronald Reagan
• Tom Barnett/Tod Fennell – Michael Reagan, adopted son of Ronald Reagan
• Laura Press – Betsy Bloomingdale, well known socialite and close friend of Nancy's
• Dan Lett – Robert H. Tuttle, assistant and director of Presidential Personnel
• Carolyn Dunn – Maureen Reagan, daughter from Jane Wyman
• Victor A. Young – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, close friend and member of President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• Don Allison – James Baker, White House Chief of Staff 81-85 Secretary of the Treasury 85-88
• John Bourgeols – John Tower, U.S. Senator from Texas and led the Tower Commission investigating the Iran-Contra Affair
• Rodger Barton – Robert McFarlane, National Security Advisor 83-85
• Frank Fontaine – William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence 81-87
• George R. Robertson – Barry Goldwater, Republican U.S. Senator from Arizona and key figure in Reagan's rise in the Republican Party
• John Koensgen – Mervyn Leroy, Hollywood director/producer who set Ron and Nancy up
• John Robinson – Jerry Parr, Secret Service agent who pushed Reagan in car during assassination attempt
• Sean McCann – George P. Shultz, Secretary of State 82-89
• Tom Rack – Elie Wiesel, Jewish writer, Holocaust survivor, professor who was critical of Reagan's visit to Bitburg, Germany to visit a cemetery in which some SS soldiers were buried
• Al Goulem – Oliver North, Decorated U.S. Marine who was on the National Security Council and although controversial, widely believed to be a scapegoat in the Iran-Contra affair
• Suzanna Lenir – Colleen Sterns Reagan, daughter in-law and wife of Michael Reagan
• Claudia Besso – Doria Reagan, daughter in-law and wife of Ron Reagan
• Lubomir Mykytiuk – Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Union
• Tatiana Chouljenko – Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
• Susan Glover – Helene Von Damme, assistant of Presidential Personnel and United States Ambassador to Austria
• Daniel Pilon – Donn Moomaw, friend, pastor of Reagan who gave the invocation at the 1981 Inaugural
• Christopher Dyson – Bernie Leadon, one time Patti boyfriend and founding member of the band The Eagles
• Lisa Bronwyn Moore – Kathy Reynolds
• John Andersen – Jimmy Carter 39th President
• Sarah Carlsen – Sarah Brady, lobbyist on gun control/wife of James Brady who was disabled after being shot during Reagan assassination attempt
• Brett Watson – Paul Grilley, son in-law and husband from 84-90 of Patti Davis Reagan
• Peter Colvey – Gerald Ford 38th President
• Alan Fawcett – Larry Speakes, assistant and White House Press Secretary
• Jerome Tiberghien – William F. Buckley, famous conservative commentator and personal friend of Reagan
• Bibi Burton – Christina Taylor based on Joan Quigley, Nancy Reagan's astrologer
• Marjorie Silcoff – Joan Didion, journalist, essayist, novelist who wrote articles for several papers including Buckley's National Review
• Kevin Woodhouse (uncredited)– John Hinckley, Jr., attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan