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The United States vs. Billie Holiday

2021
2h 6m
Biography/Drama/Music
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Cast

Andra Day (Billie Holiday)Trevante Rhodes (Jimmy Fletcher)Garrett Hedlund (Harry Anslinger)Natasha Lyonne (Tallulah Bankhead)Leslie Jordan (Reginald Lord Devine)Miss Lawrence (Miss Freddy)Dusan Dukic (Joe Glaser)Erik LaRay Harvey (James Monroe)Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Roslyn)Koumba Ball (Lucille)Kate MacLellan (Working Class Woman)Kwasi Songui (Working Class Man)Adriane Lenox (Mrs. Fletcher)Letitia Brookes (Velva)Tyler James Williams (Lester Young)Warren 'Slim' Williams (Bobby Tucker)Orville Thompson (Auditioning Sax Player)Jeff Corbett (Congressman JP Thomas)

Director

Lee Daniels

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Synopsis

Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she has a tumultuous affair.

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