Beyond The Sea (film) - Cast

Cast

  • Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin, who rises from his lower class Italian American roots to become one of the most popular rock and roll and big band performers of all time.
  • Kate Bosworth as Sandra Dee, the popular actress who marries Bobby. Although they divorced in 1967, Sandra said she has always truly and deeply loved him that she always will, and thus never remarried.
  • Bob Hoskins as Charlie Cassotto Maffia, who serves as a father figure and considers Bobby to be his son.
  • John Goodman as Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner, Bobby's dedicated talent manager. Blauner later becomes a successful film producer with movies such as Easy Rider (1969) and The Last Picture Show (1971).
  • Brenda Blethyn as Polly Cassotto, Bobby's biological maternal grandmother, who teaches him the art of music as a child.
  • Caroline Aaron as Nina Cassotto Maffia, Bobby's biological mother, whom he believed to be his older sister. Nina tells him the shocking truth when he is actually thirty-three years old.
  • Greta Scacchi as Mary Douvan, Sandra's overprotective mother.
  • Peter Cincotti as Dick Behrke, Bobby's arranger and pianist.
  • Matt Rippy as David Gershenson, Bobby's publicist.
  • William Ullrich as young Bobby.

Cathy Moriarty-Gentile and Vanessa Redgrave were originally cast in Beyond the Sea, but both actresses dropped out for unspecified reasons.

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