Onder andere met: Jena Malone (Young Ellie), David Morse (Ted Arroway), Jodie Foster (Ellie Arroway), Geoffrey Blake (Fisher), William Fichtner (Kent), Sami Chester (Vernon), Timothy McNeil (Davio), Laura Elena Surillo (Cantina Woman), Matthew McConaughey (Palmer Joss), Tom Skerritt (David Drumlin), Henry Strozier (Minister), Michael Chaban (S. R. Hadden), Max Martini (Willie (as Maximilian Martini)), Larry King (Himself), Thomas Garner (Ian Broderick)