Garden State (film) - Cast

Cast

• Zach Braff as Andrew Largeman, a depressed, heavily medicated, struggling young actor who waits tables for a Vietnamese restaurant. When he was nine years old, he accidentally paralyzed his mother by pushing her over a dishwasher door. He hasn't cried or felt any significant emotions for several years, mainly as a result of the medication he's been supplied with by his estranged father.
• Natalie Portman as Sam, an eccentric epileptic and compulsive liar, who openly admits her casual deception and frequently ponders what makes her do it. She works at a law office, and lives with her equally peculiar mother and her adopted African sibling, Titembay.
• Peter Sarsgaard as Mark, an old school friend of Andrew, now working as a grave-digger. He still lives with his mother and smokes marijuana, frequently attending wild parties; he also makes money by stealing jewelry from the people he buries and exploiting loopholes in store return policies.
• Ian Holm as Gideon Largeman, Andrew's father and professional psychiatrist, whose passive demeanor hides a deep-seated rage. He still blames Andrew for his late wife's paralysis and has thus kept him in a lithium-induced haze ever since.
• Jean Smart as Carol, Mark's mother, a recovering alcoholic, who sees a wealth of potential in her son.
• Armando Riesco as Jesse, Another school friend of Mark and Andrew who has made a fortune and bought a mansion on money he has earned from inventing a silent alternative to Velcro fabric.
• Jackie Hoffman as Sylvia Largeman: Andrew's aunt, who sings Lionel Richie's "Three Times a Lady" at her sister-in-law's funeral.
• Method Man as Diego, a bellhop at a luxury hotel who hosts peeping sessions of various hotel rooms.
• Alex Burns as Dave: Another old school friend who now works as a grave-digger with Mark.
• Ron Liebman as Dr. Cohen, A psychiatrist whom Andrew visits at the beginning of the film.
• Denis O'Hare in a cameo appearance as Albert: One of the "guardians of the abyss."
• Jim Parsons as Tim, an old acquaintance of Mark and Andrew, and the boyfriend of Mark's mother, who works as a knight at Medieval Times and speaks Klingon which he also speaks on The Big Bang Theory.
• Michael Weston as Kenny the Cop, a former classmate of Andrew's from high school, he is now employed as a police officer in their New Jersey neighborhood.