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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots Cast

205 cast members · 87 with popularity data
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Sorted by Buzz Score · April 29, 2026
1
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
14.4
#97 overall
2
Sean Combs
Self · 1 eps
6.2
#395 overall
3
Jessica Alba
Self · 1 eps
5.8
#452 overall
4
Adrian Grenier
Self · 1 eps
5.4
#536 overall
5
Ben Affleck
Self · 1 eps
4.9
#627 overall
6
Robert Downey Jr.
Self · 1 eps
4.8
#648 overall
7
Tina Fey
Self · 2 eps
4.4
#761 overall
8
Stephen King
Self · 1 eps
4.4
#765 overall
9
Paul Rudd
Self · 1 eps
4.3
#811 overall
10
LL Cool J
Self · 1 eps
4.2
#844 overall
11
Bernie Sanders
Self · 1 eps
4.2
#863 overall
12
Patricia Arquette
Self · 1 eps
4.0
#948 overall
13
Fred Armisen
Self · 1 eps
3.7
#1,064 overall
14
Sally Field
Self · 2 eps
3.6
#1,101 overall
15
Julianna Margulies
Self · 1 eps
3.4
#1,200 overall
16
Kevin Bacon
Self · 1 eps
3.4
#1,204 overall
17
Dustin Hoffman
Self · 1 eps
3.4
#1,229 overall
18
Samuel L. Jackson
Self · 1 eps
3.3
#1,268 overall
19
Larry David
Self · 1 eps
3.3
#1,274 overall
20
Neil Patrick Harris
Self · 1 eps
3.2
#1,358 overall
21
Christopher Walken
Self · 1 eps
3.2
#1,361 overall
22
Sting
Self · 2 eps
3.2
#1,366 overall
23
Kyra Sedgwick
Self · 1 eps
3.1
#1,390 overall
24
Carole King
Self · 1 eps
3.1
#1,442 overall
25
Angela Bassett
Self · 2 eps
2.8
#1,617 overall
26
Ted Danson
Self · 1 eps
2.8
#1,688 overall
27
Bill Maher
Self · 1 eps
2.6
#1,804 overall
28
John McCain
Self · 1 eps
2.6
#1,828 overall
29
Sterling K. Brown
Self · 1 eps
2.6
#1,839 overall
30
Mary Steenburgen
Self · 1 eps
2.6
#1,903 overall
31
Carly Simon
Self · 1 eps
2.5
#1,981 overall
32
William H. Macy
Self · 1 eps
2.3
#2,205 overall
33
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Self · 1 eps
2.3
#2,207 overall
34
Carmelo Anthony
Self · 1 eps
2.2
#2,318 overall
35
Nas
Self · 2 eps
2.2
#2,341 overall
36
Martha Stewart
Self · 1 eps
2.1
#2,453 overall
37
Derek Jeter
Self · 2 eps
2.1
#2,564 overall
38
Anderson Cooper
Self · 2 eps
2.1
#2,607 overall
39
Condoleezza Rice
Self · 1 eps
2.0
#2,714 overall
40
Richard Branson
Self · 1 eps
2.0
#2,717 overall
41
Alan Dershowitz
Self · 2 eps
1.9
#2,798 overall
42
Cory Booker
Self · 1 eps
1.8
#3,086 overall
43
Michelle Rodriguez
Self · 1 eps
1.7
#3,193 overall
44
John Legend
Self · 1 eps
1.6
#3,478 overall
45
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Self · 1 eps
1.5
#3,682 overall
46
Shonda Rhimes
Self · 1 eps
1.5
#3,698 overall
47
Barbara Walters
Self · 1 eps
1.4
#4,152 overall
48
Billie Jean King
Self · 1 eps
1.3
#4,374 overall
49
Bill O'Reilly
Self · 1 eps
1.2
#4,602 overall
50
John Lewis
Self · 1 eps
1.2
#4,746 overall
51
Gloria Steinem
Self · 1 eps
1.2
#4,790 overall
52
Jon Batiste
Self · 1 eps
1.1
#5,158 overall
53
Courtney B. Vance
Self · 1 eps
1.1
#5,276 overall
54
David Sedaris
Self · 1 eps
1.1
#5,338 overall
55
Harry Connick Jr.
Self · 1 eps
1.1
#5,476 overall
56
Gaby Hoffmann
Self · 1 eps
1.0
#5,664 overall
57
Gloria Reuben
Self · 1 eps
1.0
#5,816 overall
58
Ken Burns
Self · 1 eps
0.9
#6,049 overall
59
Margaret Cho
Self · 1 eps
0.9
#6,437 overall
60
George Stephanopoulos
Self · 2 eps
0.9
#6,497 overall
61
Ana Navarro
Self · 1 eps
0.8
#7,120 overall
62
Wanda Sykes
Self · 1 eps
0.8
#7,285 overall
63
Robert Downey Sr.
Self · 1 eps
0.7
#7,529 overall
64
Norman Lear
Self · 1 eps
0.7
#7,769 overall
65
Khandi Alexander
Self · 1 eps
0.7
#7,813 overall
66
Frank Gehry
Self · 1 eps
0.7
#8,261 overall
67
Tony Kushner
Self · 2 eps
0.6
#8,455 overall
68
Deepak Chopra
Self · 1 eps
0.6
#9,011 overall
69
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Self · 1 eps
0.6
#9,556 overall
70
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host · 126 eps
0.5
#9,723 overall
71
Sanjay Gupta
Self · 1 eps
0.5
#10,985 overall
72
Rick Warren
Self · 1 eps
0.4
#11,693 overall
73
Sasheer Zamata
Self · 1 eps
0.4
#11,791 overall
74
Ming Tsai
Self · 1 eps
0.4
#12,494 overall
75
Tom Colicchio
Self · 2 eps
0.4
#12,608 overall
76
Anna Deavere Smith
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#13,616 overall
77
Maya Lin
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#15,321 overall
78
Bryant Gumbel
Self · 1 eps
0.3
#16,031 overall
79
Branford Marsalis
Self · 1 eps
0.2
#17,021 overall
80
Donna Brazile
Self · 1 eps
0.2
#18,228 overall
81
Naomi Foner
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#21,927 overall
82
Janet Mock
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#21,948 overall
83
Rebecca Lobo
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#22,802 overall
84
Suzanne Malveaux
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#23,026 overall
85
Linda Chavez
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#28,432 overall
86
Azar Nafisi
Self · 1 eps
0.1
#32,059 overall
87
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Self · 1 eps
0.0
#41,022 overall
88
Kara Walker
Self · 1 eps
—
89
Geoffrey Canada
Self · 1 eps
—
90
Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Self · 1 eps
—
91
Yasir Qadhi
Self · 1 eps
—
92
Ruth Simmons
Self · 1 eps
—
93
Margarett Cooper
Self · 1 eps
—
94
Ben Jealous
Self · 1 eps
—
95
Valerie Jarrett
Self · 2 eps
—
96
Deval Patrick
Self · 1 eps
—
97
Aarón Sánchez
Self · 2 eps
—
98
Sandra Cisneros
Self · 1 eps
—
99
Oswald Mosley
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
—
100
Tonya Lewis Lee
Self · 1 eps
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