12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 British-American historical drama film based on the 1853 autobiography Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.
==Plot==
Solomon Northup was a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. after being lured from Saratoga Springs, New York in 1841. He was then sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War.
==Cast==
*Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup
*Michael Fassbender as Edwin Epps
*Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey
*Sarah Paulson as Mary Epps
*Benedict Cumberbatch as William Ford
*Brad Pitt as Samuel Bass
*Paul Dano as John Tibeats
*Adepero Oduye as Eliza
*Paul Giamatti as Theophilus Freeman
*Garret Dillahunt as Armsby
*Scoot McNairy as Brown
*Taran Killam as Hamilton
*Chris Chalk as Clemens Ray
*Michael K. Williams as Robert
*Kelsey Scott as Anne Northup
*Quvenzhané Wallis as Margaret Northup
*Devyn A. Tyler as Adult Margaret Northup
*Cameron Zeigler as Alonzo Northup
*Rob Steinberg as Parker
*Jay Huguley as Sheriff Villiere
*Alfre Woodard as Mistress Harriet Shaw
*Christopher Berry as James Burch
*Bryan Batt as Judge Turner
*Bill Camp as Radburn
*Dwight Henry as Uncle Abram
== Related Links ==
*Official site
==References==
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