Daniel Day-Lewis
as Abraham Lincoln

Sally Field
as Mary Todd Lincoln

David Strathairn
as William Seward

Joseph Gordon-Levitt
as Robert Lincoln

James Spader
as W.N. Bilbo

Hal Holbrook
as Preston Blair

Tommy Lee Jones
as Thaddeus Stevens

John Hawkes
as Robert Latham

Jackie Earle Haley
as Alexander Stephens

Bruce McGill
as Edwin Stanton

Tim Blake Nelson
as Richard Schell

Joseph Cross
as John Hay

Jared Harris
as Ulysses S. Grant

Lee Pace
as Fernando Wood

Peter McRobbie
as George Pendleton

Gulliver McGrath
as Tad Lincoln

Gloria Reuben
as Elizabeth Keckley

Jeremy Strong
as John Nicolay

Michael Stuhlbarg
as George Yeaman

Boris McGiver
as Alexander Coffroth

David Costabile
as James Ashley

Stephen Spinella
as Asa Vintner Litton

Walton Goggins
as Clay Hawkins

David Warshofsky
as William Hutton

Colman Domingo
as Private Harold Green

David Oyelowo
as Corporal Ira Clark

Lukas Haas
as First White Soldier

Dane DeHaan
as Second White Soldier

Carlos Thompson
as Navy Yard – Shouting Soldier

Bill Camp
as Mr. Jolly

Elizabeth Marvel
as Mrs. Jolly

Byron Jennings
as Montgomery Blair

Julie White
as Elizabeth Blair Lee

Charmaine White
as Minerva – Blair's Servant

Ralph D. Edlow
as Leo – Blair's Servant

Grainger Hines
as Gideon Welles

Richard Topol
as James Speed

Walt Smith
as William Fessenden

Dakin Matthews
as John Usher

James 'Ike' Eichling
as William Dennison

Wayne Duvall
as Senator Bluff Wade

Bill Raymond
as Schuyler Colfax

Michael Stanton Kennedy
as Hiram Price

Ford Flannagan
as White House Doorkeeper – Tom Pendel

Robert Ayers
as White House Petitioner

Robert Peters
as Jacob Graylor

John Moon
as Edwin LeClerk

Kevin Lawrence O'Donnell
as Charles Hanson

Jamie Horton
as Giles Stuart

Joe Dellinger
as Nelson Merrick

Richard Warner
as Homer Benson

Elijah Chester
as Union Army Officer

Dave Hager
as Captain Nathan Saunders – River Queen

Sean Haggerty
as Officer in Peace Commissioners Exchange

Mike Shiflett
as Senator R.M.T. Hunter

Gregory Itzin
as Judge John A. Campbell

Stephen Dunn
as Petersburg Siege Lines – Confederate Officer

Stephen McKinley Henderson
as William Slade

Chase Edmunds
as Willie Lincoln

John Hutton
as Senator Charles Sumner

Robert Ruffin
as Major Thompson Eckert

Drew Sease
as David Homer Bates

John Lescault
as Gustavus Fox

Scott Wichmann
as Charles Benjamin

Adam Driver
as Samuel Beckwith

Jean Kennedy Smith
as House of Representatives – Woman Shouter

Shirley Augustine
as House of Representatives – Woman Shouter

Sarah Wylie
as House of Representatives – Woman Shouter

Margaret Ann McGowan
as House of Representatives – Woman Shouter

Hilary Montgomery
as House of Representatives – Woman Shouter

Asa-Luke Twocrow
as Ely Parker

Lancer Dean Shull
as Union Soldier – Bodyguard

Robert Wilharm
as Wounded Soldier

Kevin Kline
as Wounded Soldier

John Jones
as Wounded Soldier

Paul Gowans
as Wounded Soldier

Joseph Miller
as Wounded Soldier

John Bellemer
as Faust

Mary Dunleavy
as Marguerite

Christopher Evan Welch
as Clerk – Edward McPherson

Alan Sader
as Sergeant At Arms

Gannon McHale
as Aaron Haddam

Ken Lambert
as Augustus Benjamin

Thomas Belgrey
as Arthur Bentleigh

Ted Johnson
as John Ellis

Don Henderson Baker
as Walter Appleton

Raynor Scheine
as Josiah S. 'Beanpole' Burton

Armistead Wellford
as Nehemiah Cleary

Michael Ruff
as Harold Hollister

Rich Wills
as House of Representatives – Soldier One

Stephen Bozzo
as House of Representatives – Soldier Two

Christopher Alan Stewart
as Sergeant – Grant's HQ

Teddy Eck
as Corporal – Grant's HQ

Todd Fletcher
as Walter H. Washburn

Charles Kinney
as Myer Strauss

Joseph Carlson
as Joseph Marstern

Michael Goodwin
as Chilton A. Elliot

Edward McDonald
as Daniel G. Stuart

Jim Batchelder
as Howard Guillefoyle

Gregory Hosaflook
as John F. McKenzie

Joe Kerkes
as Andrew E. Finck

William Kaffenberger
as John A. Casson

Larry Van Hoose
as Avon Hanready

C. Brandon Marshall
as Rufus Warren

David Russell Graham
as House of Representatives – Rebel Shouter

Benjamin Shirley
as House of Representatives – Rebel Shouter

Henry Kidd
as House of Representatives – Rebel Shouter

Joseph Frances Filipowski
as House of Representatives – Rebel Shouter

Thomas Aldridge
as House of Representatives

Sidney Blackmer Jr.
as House of Representatives

Billy Caldwell
as House of Representatives

Glenn T. Crone
as House of Representatives

Martin Dew
as House of Representatives

Theodore Ewald
as House of Representatives

Todd Hunter
as House of Representatives

Joe Inscoe
as House of Representatives

Raymond H. Johnson
as House of Representatives

Gary Keener
as House of Representatives

Randolph Meekins
as House of Representatives

Frank Moran
as House of Representatives

Charley Morgan
as House of Representatives

Chad Pettit
as House of Representatives

Barry Privett
as House of Representatives

Leslie Rogers
as House of Representatives

Marcello Rollando
as House of Representatives

Keith Tyree
as House of Representatives

Kevin J. Walsh
as House of Representatives

Robert Wray
as House of Representatives

S. Epatha Merkerson
as Lydia Smith

Christopher Boyer
as General Robert E. Lee

Stephen Dunford
as Actor Swordsman

David Doersch
as Actor Demon Affrit

Christopher Cartmill
as Leonard Grover

Robert Shepherd
as Dr. Joseph K. Barnes

Lucas N. Hall
as Grover's Theater Patron