Green Zone (film) - Cast

Cast

• Matt Damon portrays Roy Miller, a US Army Chief Warrant Officer on the hunt for WMDs in Iraq and the film's main protagonist. Roy Miller is based on real-life Army chief warrant officer Richard "Monty" Gonzales. Damon joined the film with the assurance that production would conclude by April 14, 2008 so he could start working on the Steven Soderbergh film The Informant! on April 15, amid scheduling difficulties caused by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
• Amy Ryan portrays Lawrie Dayne, a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal who investigates the Bush administration's claims of the existence of weapons of mass destruction. One reviewer noted that, "it's crystal-clear that...Dayne is former New York Times reporter Judith Miller."
• Brendan Gleeson portrays Martin Brown, the CIA Baghdad bureau chief, loosely based on Jay Garner.
• Greg Kinnear portrays Clark Poundstone, Pentagon Special Intelligence and the film's main antagonist. One reviewer saw Poundstone as Paul Bremer, the "...Coalition Provisional Authority head in 2003–04...
• Yigal Naor portrays General Mohammed Al-Rawi, who is an informant called 'Magellan', loosely based on the real-life informant Rafid Ahmed Alwan aka "Curveball".
• Jerry Della Salla portrays platoon sergeant Wilkins.
• Nicoye Banks portrays Perry.
• Jason Isaacs portrays Maj. Briggs, a special operations commander on the hunt for High-value targets. Although his unit is named Task Force 221 in the film, the character is presumably based on CAG and DEVGRU operators such as those in Task Force 88, whose mission is the elimination of "deck of cards" high-value targets.
• Martin McDougall portrays Mr. Sheen, CIA Baghdad assistant bureau chief.
• Khalid Abdalla portrays Freddy. Freddy, an Iraqi Army veteran who lost his leg in 1987 during the Iran–Iraq War, becomes Miller's translator. Abdalla was cast in the role after impressing Greengrass with his performance in United 93. The actor, who is of Egyptian descent, prepared for his role by learning the Iraqi Arabic dialect and reading Iraqi blogs like Riverbend and Alive in Baghdad.
• Michael O'Neill portrays Colonel Bethel
• Antoni Corone portrays Colonel Lyons
• Tommy Campbell portrays the Chopper Comms Commander.
• Paul McIntosh portrays a CIA officer.
• Sean Huze portrays U.S. Army Sergeant Conway, a member of Roy Miller's MET team.
• Robert Harrison O'Neil portrays a TV Journalist.
• Said Faraj portrays Seyyed Hamza
• Abdul Henderson portrays Marshall, a member of Roy Miller's MET