Vanessa Bell Calloway, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Zackary Momoh and Deborah Ayorinde Join Harriet Tubman Film

Vanessa Bell Calloway, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Zackary Momoh and Deborah Ayorinde Join Harriet Tubman FilmPosted by Wilson Morales

September 21, 2018

Source: Deadline

Deadline is reporting that Vanessa Bell Calloway (Coming To America, Shameless), Vondie Curtis-Hall (ABC’s For The People), Zackary Momoh (Seven Seconds, A United Kingdom), & Deborah Ayorinde (Girls Trip) have been added to cast of Harriet, which tells the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

Tubman is an American hero who escaped the shackles of slavery and subsequently helped free others from servitude through a channel of safe houses and secret routes known as the Underground Railroad. She also served a spy for the Union during the Civil War and fought for women’s right to vote.

Calloway will play Harriet’s mother, Rit Ross, while Momoh will play Harriet’s husband.

With Kasi Lemmons directing the film from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gregory Allen Howard, the quartet join the previously announced Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo (who plays Harriet), Tony Award-winner and Grammy Award®-winner Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, multiple Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Nettles, and Clarke Peters.

Focus Features and Universal Pictures International will distribute the film worldwide.

Debra Martin Chase with Martin Chase Productions, Daniela Taplin Lundberg with Stay Gold Features and Gregory Allen Howard will produce. Josh McLaughlin, Focus Features president of production, is overseeing the production.