Cast
- Russell Crowe as John Nash, Jr., a mathematical genius who is obsessed with finding an original idea to ensure his legacy.
- Ed Harris as William Parcher, a highly dedicated and forceful government agent for the Department of Defense. He recruits Nash to help fight Soviet spies. He is actually one of Nash's hallucinations.
- Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash, a later student of Nash with whom he falls in love and eventually marries.
- Paul Bettany as Charles Herman, Nash's cheerful, supportive roommate and best friend throughout graduate school. He is another hallucination.
- Josh Lucas as Martin Hansen, Nash's friendly rival from his graduate school years at Princeton. In the end, Hansen tells Nash that nobody wins, and they are at that point to consider each other as equals.
- Adam Goldberg as Sol, a friend of Nash's from Princeton University who is chosen, along with Bender, to work with him at MIT.
- Anthony Rapp as Bender, a friend of Nash's from Princeton University who is chosen, along with Sol, to work with him at MIT.
- Vivien Cardone as Marcee, Charles' young niece, also a hallucination.
- Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen, Nash's doctor at a psychiatric hospital.
- Judd Hirsch as Helinger, the head of the Princeton mathematics department.
- Jason Gray-Stanford as Ainsley Neilson, the symbol cryptography professor. Nash pays particular attention to his tie.
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