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The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Directed by Lee Daniels
“Her voice would not be silenced.”
Music, Drama, History · 2h 11m
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
Cast
Andra Day
Billie Holiday
Trevante Rhodes
Jimmy Fletcher
Garrett Hedlund
Harry Anslinger
Leslie Jordan
Reginald Lord Devine
Miss Lawrence
Miss Freddy
Adriane Lenox
Mrs. Fletcher
Natasha Lyonne
Tallulah Bankhead
Rob Morgan
Louis McKay
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Roslyn
Evan Ross
Agent Williams
Tyler James Williams
Lester 'Prez' Young
Tone Bell
John Levy
Crew
- Director
- Lee Daniels
- Screenplay
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Director of Photography
- Andrew Dunn
- Original Music Composer
- Kris Bowers
- Editor
- Jay Rabinowitz
- Producer
- Lee Daniels, Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum, Jordan Fudge, Tucker Tooley, Pamela Oas Williams
Details
- Release date
- 2021-03-31
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Genres
- Music, Drama, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Lee Daniels Entertainment, Roth-Kirschenbaum Films