Oppenheimer (film)

as J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos Laboratory.^[10]

Cillian Murphy

as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer's wife and a former Communist Party USA member.^[11]

Emily Blunt

as Gen. Leslie Groves, a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) officer and director of the Manhattan Project.^[12]

Matt Damon

as Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss, a retired Naval Reserve officer and high-ranking member of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).^[12]

Robert Downey Jr.

as Jean Tatlock, a psychiatrist, Communist Party USA member, and Robert Oppenheimer's romantic interest.^[13]

Florence Pugh

as Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel-winning nuclear physicist who worked with Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley.^[14][15]

Josh Hartnett

as Boris Pash, a US Army military intelligence officer and commander of the Alsos Mission.^[16]

Casey Affleck

as David L. Hill, a nuclear physicist at the Metallurgical Laboratory, who helped to create the Chicago Pile.^[13]

Rami Malek

as Niels Bohr, a Nobel-winning Danish physicist, philosopher and Oppenheimer's personal idol.^[17]

Kenneth Branagh

as Edward Teller, a Hungarian theoretical physicist known for being the "father of the hydrogen bomb".^[13]

Benny Safdie

as Roger Robb, an attorney and future US circuit judge who served as special counsel to the AEC at Oppenheimer's security hearing.^[18]

Jason Clarke

as Frank Oppenheimer, Robert's younger brother and a particle physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.^[19]

Dylan Arnold

as Albert Einstein, Nobel-winning German theoretical physicist known for developing the theory of relativity.^[20]

Tom Conti

as Patrick Blackett, Oppenheimer's doctoral supervisor and Nobel-winning physicist at Cambridge University.^[21]

James D'Arcy

as William L. Borden, a lawyer and executive director of the United States Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE).^[22]

David Dastmalchian

as Maj Gen. Kenneth Nichols, a US Army officer and the deputy district engineer of the Manhattan Project.^[23]

Dane DeHaan

as a Senate aide to Lewis Strauss during Strauss's nomination for United States Secretary of Commerce.^[24][25]

Alden Ehrenreich

as Gordon Gray, a government official and chairman of the committee deciding the revoking of Oppenheimer security clearance.^[26]

Tony Goldwyn

as Haakon Chevalier ("Hoke"), a Berkeley professor who became friends with Oppenheimer at university.^[27][28]

Jefferson Hall

as Isidor Isaac Rabi, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who worked as a consultant on the Manhattan Project.^[24]

David Krumholtz

as Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development.^[29]

Matthew Modine

as Counsel to Lewis Strauss^[30]

Scott Grimes

Kurt Koehler as Thomas A. Morgan, an industrialist and former chairman of the board of the who was one of the panel members at Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing.^[31][32]

Sperry Corporation

John Gowans as , a chemist and academic who served as one of the panel members at Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing.^[33]

Ward V. Evans

as Lloyd K. Garrison, a lawyer who helped to represent Oppenheimer at his security clearance hearing.^[34]

Macon Blair

as Sen. Warren Magnuson, Chairman of Senate Commerce Committee.^[34]

Gregory Jbara

as Sen. Gale W. McGee^[34]

Harry Groener

as Sen. John Pastore^[34]

Tim DeKay

as Werner Heisenberg, a German Nobel Prize-winning physicist who worked in Germany's nuclear weapons program during World War II.^[35][36]

Matthias Schweighöfer

as Luis Walter Alvarez, a Nobel-winning physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.^[37]

Alex Wolff

as Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz, a physicist who became Oppenheimer's protégé at Berkeley.^[38]

Josh Zuckerman

Rory Keane as , a physicist, who collaborated with Oppenheimer to calculate the gravitational collapse of a dust particle sphere.^[33]

Hartland Snyder

as Robert Serber, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.^[14]

Michael Angarano

as Jackie Oppenheimer, Frank's wife and Robert's sister-in-law.^[39]

Emma Dumont

as George C. Eltenton, a chemical engineer in the US with ties to the Soviet Union.^[40]

Guy Burnet

as Ruth Tolman, a psychologist close to Oppenheimer during the development of the atomic bomb.^[41]

Louise Lombard

Tom Jenkins as , Ruth's husband and General Groves' chief scientific adviser on the Manhattan Project.^[42]

Richard C. Tolman

as Edward Condon, a nuclear physicist who helped with the development of radar and briefly took part in the Manhattan Project.^[19]

Olli Haaskivi

as Donald Hornig, a chemist who worked on the firing unit at Los Alamos.^[43]

David Rysdahl

as Kenneth Bainbridge, a physicist who was the director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test.^[44]

Josh Peck

as Richard Feynman, an American Nobel-winning theoretical physicist who worked in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos.^[45]

Jack Quaid

as Hans Bethe, a German-American Nobel-winning theoretical physicist and the head of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos.^[46]

Gustaf Skarsgård

as Kurt Gödel, an Austrian logician and mathematician known for his theorems that revolutionized mathematics and had far-reaching implications for philosophy and computer science.^[34]

James Urbaniak

as George Kistiakowsky, a Harvard professor who took part in the Manhattan Project.^[47]

Trond Fausa

as Seth Neddermeyer, a physicist who discovered the muon and advocated for the implosion-type nuclear weapon used in the Trinity Test.^[48]

Devon Bostick

Danny Deferrari as , an Italian Nobel-winning physicist and creator of the Chicago Pile.^[40]

Enrico Fermi

as Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and spied for the Soviet Union.^[30]

Christopher Denham

Jessica Erin Martin as , head technical librarian at Los Alamos.^[49]

Charlotte Serber

Ronald Auguste as , an African American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician who worked with Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project.^[49]

J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.

as Leo Szilard, a Hungarian physicist who conceived the idea of nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and later in July 1945 at the Chicago branch of the Manhattan Project circulated the petition to President Truman against unannounced use of atomic weapons on Japan.^[50]

Máté Haumann

as Lilli Hornig, a Czech-American scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project.^[51]

Olivia Thirlby

as Lyall Johnson, a security officer at Berkeley who worked at the Manhattan Project.^[34]

Jack Cutmore-Scott

as Philip Morrison, a physics professor who worked on the Manhattan Project.^[39]

Harrison Gilbertson

as Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War under President Truman.^[34]

James Remar

Will Roberts as , the United States Army Chief of Staff from 1939 to 1945.

George C. Marshall

as James F. Byrnes, US Secretary of State and future Governor of South Carolina.^[34]

Pat Skipper

as Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States who made the decision to drop the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.^[52]

Gary Oldman

Hap Lawrence as , the 36th President of the United States.^[34]

Lyndon B. Johnson

Troy Bronson as , a chemist instrumental on the discovery of plutonium, and head of the Chemistry Department at Los Alamos.^[53]

Joseph W. Kennedy

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, a 1980 TV series about Oppenheimer, portrayed by Sam Waterston

Oppenheimer

, also known as Shadow Makers, 1989 film about the Manhattan Project

Fat Man and Little Boy

, a 2005 opera about Oppenheimer, composed by John Adams

Doctor Atomic

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