The series cast includes an astounding twenty Oscar winners: Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Kevin Kline, Sir Michael Caine, Meryl Streep, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Matthew McConaughey, Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Brad Pitt, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Michael Douglas, Reese Witherspoon, and Sir Sean Connery; and eight Oscar nominees: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, Samuel L. Jackson, John Lithgow, Graham Greene, Angela Bassett, Glenn Close, and Jane Alexander.