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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. The film also features Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, and Jim Parsons.

Principal photography began in early March 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. The film was released on December 25, 2016 by 20th Century Fox.

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  • Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson
  • Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan
  • Janelle Monáe as Mary Jackson
  • Kevin Costner as Al Harrison
  • Kirsten Dunst as Vivian Mitchell
  • Jim Parsons as Paul Stafford
  • Glen Powell as John Glenn
  • Mahershala Ali as Jim Johnson
  • Karan Kendrick as Joylette Coleman
  • Rhoda Griffis as White Librarian
  • Maria Howell as Ms. Summer
  • Aldis Hodge as Levi Jackson
  • Paige Nicollette as Eunice Smith
  • Gary Weeks as Reporter of Press Conference
  • Saniyya Sidney as Constance Johnson

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