Do The Right Thing - Cast

Cast

• Spike Lee as Mookie, a young black man working in Sal's Famous Pizza
• Danny Aiello as Sal, a surly Italian man who owns the pizzeria
• Ossie Davis as Da Mayor, an older black man who some call the town drunk
• Ruby Dee as Mother Sister, an older black woman who observes the neighborhood goings-ons from the window of her brownstone
• Steve Park as Sonny, a Korean grocery store owner across the street from Sal's
• Bill Nunn as Radio Raheem, a towering young black man who always carries around a huge boom box blasting only Public Enemy's "Fight the Power"
• Richard Edson as Vito, one of Sal's sons and a friend of Mookie's
• Giancarlo Esposito as Buggin' Out, an excitable friend of Mookie's who "wants some brothers" on Sal's wall of fame
• John Turturro as Pino, another one of Sal's sons. He is a racist towards African Americans around the neighborhood including Mookie and not happy about being one of the last Italians in the neighborhood, nor about his brother's interracial friendship
• Rosie Perez as Tina, Mookie's girlfriend who also has a son by him named Hector.
• Paul Benjamin as ML
• Frankie Faison as Coconut Sid
• Robin Harris as Sweet Dick Willie
• Miguel Sandoval as Officer Mark Ponte, a policeman
• Rick Aiello as Officer Gary Long, a white policeman
• Joie Lee as Jade, Mookie's sister
• Samuel L. Jackson as Mister Señor Love Daddy, the local DJ
• Roger Guenveur Smith as Smiley, a young, mentally impaired man who tries to sell pictures of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
• Steve White as Ahmad
• Martin Lawrence as Cee
• Leonard L. Thomas as Punchy
• Christa Rivers as Ella
• Luis Antonio Ramos as Stevie
• John Savage as Clifton
• Frank Vincent as Charlie
• Richard Parnell Habersham as Eddie
• Ginny Yang as Kim, Sonny's wife
• Nicholas Turturro (extra) (uncredited)