The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Film2021131 min6.5/10 on TMDB
Directed by Lee Daniels
Her voice would not be silenced.
The story
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."
Watch trailerCast & crew
Andra DayBillie Holiday
Trevante RhodesJimmy Fletcher
Garrett HedlundHarry Anslinger
Leslie JordanReginald Lord Devine
Miss LawrenceMiss Freddy
Adriane LenoxMrs. Fletcher
Natasha LyonneTallulah Bankhead
Rob MorganLouis McKay
Da'Vine Joy RandolphRoslyn
Evan RossAgent Williams
Tyler James WilliamsLester 'Prez' Young
Tone BellJohn LevyExplore the crew
- Producer
- Lee Daniels
- Producer
- Joe Roth
- Director
- Lee Daniels
- Screenplay
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Producer
- Jeff Kirschenbaum
- Editor
- Jay Rabinowitz
- Producer
- Jordan Fudge
- Producer
- Pamela Oas Williams
- Producer
- Tucker Tooley
- Original Music Composer
- Kris Bowers
- Director of Photography
- Andrew Dunn