page_title: Milk (2008 American film)
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: Milk (2008 American film) / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Sean Penn filming Milk in 2008
context_page_description: Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, a city supervisor, and Victor Garber as San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.
  Attempts to put Milk's life to film followed a 1984 documentary of his life and the aftermath of his assassination, titled The Times of Harvey Milk, which was loosely based upon Randy Shilts's 1982 biography, The Mayor of Castro Street. Various scripts were considered in the early 1990s, but projects fell through for different reasons, until 2007. Much of Milk was filmed on Castro Street and other locations in San Francisco, including Milk's former storefront, Castro Camera.
context_section_description: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk
  Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones
  Josh Brolin as Dan White
  Diego Luna as Jack Lira
  James Franco as Scott Smith
  Alison Pill as Anne Kronenberg
  Victor Garber as Mayor George Moscone
  Denis O'Hare as State Senator John Briggs
  Joseph Cross as Dick Pabich
  Stephen Spinella as Rick Stokes
  Lucas Grabeel as Danny Nicoletta
  Jeff Koons as Art Agnos
  Ashlee Temple as Dianne Feinstein
  Wendy Tremont King as Carol Ruth Silver
  Steven Wiig as McConnely
  Kelvin Han Yee as Gordon Lau
  Howard Rosenman as David Goodstein
  Ted Jan Roberts as Dennis Peron
  Robert Chimento as Phillip Burton
  Zachary Culbertson as Bill Kraus
  Mark Martinez as Sylvester
  Brent Corrigan as Telephone Tree #3
  Dave Franco as Telephone Tree #5
  Dustin Lance Black as Castro Clone
  A number of Milk's associates, including speechwriter Frank M. Robinson, Teamster Allan Baird and school teacher-turned-politician Tom Ammiano portrayed themselves. Additionally, Carol Ruth Silver, who served with Milk on the Board of Supervisors, plays a small role as Thelma. Cleve Jones also has a small role as Don Amador. Anne Kronenberg makes an appearance as a stenographer, and Daniel Nicoletta appears as Carl Carlson.
caption: Sean Penn filming Milk in 2008.
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