Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host • 120 episodes
Donna Brazile
Self • 1 episodes
Kara Walker
Self • 1 episodes
Bill Maher
Self • 1 episodes
Bill O'Reilly
Self • 1 episodes
Dustin Hoffman
Self • 1 episodes
Sterling K. Brown
Self • 1 episodes
Sasheer Zamata
Self • 1 episodes
Jon Batiste
Self • 1 episodes
Harry Connick Jr.
Self • 1 episodes
Branford Marsalis
Self • 1 episodes
Cory Booker
Self • 1 episodes
John Lewis
Self • 1 episodes
Geoffrey Canada
Self • 1 episodes
Barbara Walters
Self • 1 episodes
Kevin Bacon
Self • 1 episodes
Kyra Sedgwick
Self • 1 episodes
Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Self • 1 episodes
Yasir Qadhi
Self • 1 episodes
Rick Warren
Self • 1 episodes
Robert Downey Jr.
Self • 1 episodes
Robert Downey Sr.
Self • 1 episodes
Naomi Foner
Self • 1 episodes
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Self • 1 episodes
Samuel L. Jackson
Self • 1 episodes
Condoleezza Rice
Self • 1 episodes
Ruth Simmons
Self • 1 episodes
Margaret Cho
Self • 1 episodes
Sanjay Gupta
Self • 1 episodes
Martha Stewart
Self • 1 episodes
Margarett Cooper
Self • 1 episodes
John Legend
Self • 1 episodes
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Wanda Sykes
Self • 1 episodes
Linda Chavez
Self • 1 episodes
Adrian Grenier
Self • 1 episodes
Michelle Rodriguez
Self • 1 episodes
Stephen King
Self • 1 episodes
Gloria Reuben
Self • 1 episodes
Courtney B. Vance
Self • 1 episodes
Billie Jean King
Self • 1 episodes
Rebecca Lobo
Self • 1 episodes
Ken Burns
Self • 1 episodes
Anna Deavere Smith
Self • 1 episodes
Ben Affleck
Self • 1 episodes
Khandi Alexander
Self • 1 episodes
Ben Jealous
Self • 1 episodes
Ming Tsai
Self • 1 episodes
Carole King
Self • 1 episodes
Deepak Chopra
Self • 1 episodes
David Sedaris
Self • 1 episodes
Jessica Alba
Self • 1 episodes
Derek Jeter
Self • 2 episodes
Anderson Cooper
Self • 2 episodes
Tom Colicchio
Self • 2 episodes
Angela Bassett
Self • 2 episodes
Valerie Jarrett
Self • 2 episodes
Alan Dershowitz
Self • 2 episodes
Tony Kushner
Self • 2 episodes
Sally Field
Self • 2 episodes
Tina Fey
Self • 2 episodes
Nas
Self • 2 episodes
Deval Patrick
Self • 1 episodes
Aarón Sánchez
Self • 2 episodes
Sting
Self • 2 episodes
George Stephanopoulos
Self • 2 episodes
Shonda Rhimes
Self • 1 episodes
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Self • 1 episodes
Norman Lear
Self • 1 episodes
Richard Branson
Self • 1 episodes
Frank Gehry
Self • 1 episodes
Maya Lin
Self • 1 episodes
Patricia Arquette
Self • 1 episodes
John McCain
Self • 1 episodes
Sean Combs
Self • 1 episodes
LL Cool J
Self • 1 episodes
Sandra Cisneros
Self • 1 episodes
Neil Patrick Harris
Self • 1 episodes
Gloria Steinem
Self • 1 episodes
Julianna Margulies
Self • 1 episodes
Azar Nafisi
Self • 1 episodes
Larry David
Self • 1 episodes
Bernie Sanders
Self • 1 episodes
Fred Armisen
Self • 1 episodes
Carly Simon
Self • 1 episodes
Christopher Walken
Self • 1 episodes
Ted Danson
Self • 1 episodes
William H. Macy
Self • 1 episodes
Mary Steenburgen
Self • 1 episodes
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Self • 1 episodes
Janet Mock
Self • 1 episodes
Oswald Mosley
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Paul Rudd
Self • 1 episodes
Bryant Gumbel
Self • 1 episodes
Tonya Lewis Lee
Self • 1 episodes
Suzanne Malveaux
Self • 1 episodes
Carmelo Anthony
Self • 1 episodes
Ana Navarro
Self • 1 episodes
Gaby Hoffmann
Self • 1 episodes
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Self • 1 episodes
Phil McGraw
Self • 1 episodes
Aziz Ansari
Self • 1 episodes
Maya Rudolph
Self • 2 episodes
Amy Schumer
Self • 1 episodes
George R. R. Martin
Self • 1 episodes
Andy Samberg
Self • 1 episodes
Felicity Huffman
Self • 1 episodes
Michael Kenneth Williams
Self • 1 episodes
Christiane Amanpour
Self • 1 episodes
Kal Penn
Self • 1 episodes
Sheryl Sandberg
Self • 1 episodes
Michael Strahan
Self • 1 episodes
CeCe Moore
Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert • 7 episodes
Paul Ryan
Self • 1 episodes
Marco Rubio
Self • 1 episodes
Tulsi Gabbard
Self • 1 episodes
Josh Meyers
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Seth Meyers
Self • 1 episodes
Tig Notaro
Self • 1 episodes
Sarah Silverman
Self • 1 episodes
Michael Moore
Self • 1 episodes
Chloë Sevigny
Self • 1 episodes
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Self • 1 episodes
Marina Abramović
Self • 1 episodes
Ty Burrell
Self • 2 episodes
Mia Farrow
Self • 2 episodes
Anjelica Huston
Self • 1 episodes
Isabella Rossellini
Self • 1 episodes
Melissa McCarthy
Self • 1 episodes
Eric Stonestreet
Self • 1 episodes
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Mitchell Pritchett (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Queen Latifah
Self • 1 episodes
Jeffrey Wright
Self • 1 episodes
Jeff Goldblum
Self • 1 episodes
Terry Gross
Self • 1 episodes
Marc Maron
Self • 1 episodes
Steve Carell
Self / Michael Scott • 1 episodes
Amy Ryan
Self • 1 episodes
Sigourney Weaver
Self • 1 episodes
Justina Machado
Self • 1 episodes
Harold E. Varmus
Self • 1 episodes
Shirley Ann Jackson
Self • 1 episodes
Francis Collins
Self • 1 episodes
Soledad O'Brien
Self • 2 episodes
Jimmy Kimmel
Self • 2 episodes
Ava DuVernay
Self • 2 episodes
John Turturro
Self • 2 episodes
Questlove
Self • 2 episodes
Lisa Ling
Self • 2 episodes
Marisa Tomei
Self • 2 episodes
S. Epatha Merkerson
Self • 2 episodes
Laura Linney
Self • 2 episodes
Diane von Fürstenberg
Self • 1 episodes
Narciso Rodríguez
Self • 1 episodes
RuPaul
Self • 1 episodes
Bill Hader
Self • 2 episodes
Julianne Moore
Self • 2 episodes
Lidia Bastianich
Self • 2 episodes
Scarlett Johansson
Self • 2 episodes
Lupita Nyong'o
Self • 2 episodes
Téa Leoni
Self • 2 episodes
Ann Curry
Self • 2 episodes
Kehinde Wiley
Self • 2 episodes
Joe Madison
Self • 2 episodes
Gayle King
Self • 1 episodes
Jordan Peele
Self • 1 episodes
Issa Rae
Self • 1 episodes
Nancy Pelosi
Self • 1 episodes
Norah O'Donnell
Self • 1 episodes
Zac Posen
Self • 1 episodes
Glenn Close
Self • 1 episodes
John Waters
Self • 1 episodes
Andy Cohen
Self • 1 episodes
Nina Totenberg
Self • 1 episodes
Jane Lynch
Self • 1 episodes
Jim Gaffigan
Self • 1 episodes
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Christopher Meloni
Self • 1 episodes
Tony Shalhoub
Self • 1 episodes
Pharrell Williams
Self • 1 episodes
Kasi Lemmons
Self • 1 episodes
Clint Black
Self • 1 episodes
Rosanne Cash
Self • 1 episodes
Johnny Cash
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
Vivian Liberto
Self (archive footage) • 1 episodes
John Lithgow
Self • 1 episodes
Maria Hinojosa
Self • 1 episodes
Wes Studi
• 1 episodes
LeVar Burton
• 1 episodes
Brendan Fraser
• 1 episodes
Valerie Bertinelli
• 1 episodes
Ciara
• 1 episodes
Alanis Morissette
• 1 episodes
Sammy Hagar
• 1 episodes
Ed O'Neill
• 1 episodes
Bob Odenkirk
• 1 episodes
Iliza Shlesinger
• 1 episodes
Sunny Hostin
• 1 episodes
Jesse Williams
• 1 episodes
Danielle Brooks
• 1 episodes
Dionne Warwick
• 1 episodes
Tracy Morgan
• 1 episodes
Anthony Ramos
• 1 episodes
Michael Douglas
• 1 episodes
Lena Dunham
• 1 episodes
Crew
Camera
Lisa Vidal
Grip
Crew
Jack Hillyer
Intern • 1 episodes
Shana Darabie
Intern
Michaela Echols
Intern
Andrew Gibbs
Intern
Nya Archie
Intern
Directing
Phil Bertelsen
Director • 1 episodes
Josh Gleason
Director
Jesse Sweet
Director
Hazel Gurland-Pooler
Director
Editing
Vivian Z. Hu
Assistant Editor
Ben Howard
Editor
Kevin Fanning
Assistant Editor
Natalia Stevenson
Assistant Editor
Aaron Prieto
Assistant Editor
