The Pelican Brief (film) - Cast

Cast

• Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) - second year Tulane University Law School student; author of the brief
• Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) - reporter for the fictional Washington Herald
• Fletcher Cole (Tony Goldwyn) - White House Chief of Staff; unofficial head of power
• Khamel "Sam" (Stanley Tucci) - international assassin
• Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard) - Tulane law school professor; romantically involved with Darby Shaw
• Gavin Verheek (John Heard) - lawyer, special counsel to the FBI director; friend to Thomas Callahan
• F. Denton Voyles (James B. Sikking) - Director of the FBI
• Alice Stark (Cynthia Nixon) - Darby Shaw's friend
• Bob Gminski (William Atherton) - CIA Director
• The President (Robert Culp) - elected U.S. President whose name is unspecified and is always referred to as "the President"; delegates many administrative duties to Fletcher Cole
• Smith Keen (John Lithgow) - Gray Grantham's boss, an assistant managing editor at the fictional Washington Herald
• Justice Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn) - eldest, most controversial Supreme Court Justice
• Justice Jensen (Ralph Cosham) - youngest Supreme Court Justice; apparently homosexual
• Curtis Morgan (aka Garcia) (Jake Weber) - lawyer for White & Blazovitch who stumbles across an incriminating memo, costing him his life.
• Marty Velmano (Anthony Heald) - senior attorney at White & Blazovitch and conspirator on Victor Mattiece's behalf
• Stump (Nicholas Woodeson) - assassin who stalks Darby Shaw