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Which actors appeared in Mike Nichols’s miniseries Angels in America?
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Mike Nichols
American director Mike Nichols in 2010. He was one of only a few people to have ever earned an EGOT, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony over the course of his career.
The 2003 HBO miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America, directed by Mike Nichols, featured an all-star cast including:
- Emma Thompson as the Angel
- Al Pacino as Roy Cohn
- Meryl Streep as Hannah/Ethel Rosenberg
- Justin Kirk as Prior Walter
- Jeffrey Wright as Belize
- Mary-Louise Parker as Harper Pitt12
As in the original stage production, the actors portraying the main characters also performed several minor roles throughout the miniseries.1