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Evelyn Couch

Jessica Tandy

Ninny Threadgoode

Mary-Louise Parker

Ruth Jamison

Mary Stuart Masterson

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Cicely Tyson

Sipsey

Stan Shaw

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Chris O'Donnell

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Gailard Sartain

Ed Couch

Timothy Scott

Smokey Lonesome

Gary Basaraba

Grady Kilgore

Lois Smith

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Jo Harvey Allen

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Fannie Flagg

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Haynes Brooke

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Reverend Scroggins

Constance Shulman

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Nick Searcy

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Macon McCalman

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Sheriff Curtis Smoote

Grace Zabriskie

Eva Bates

Danny Nelson

Papa Threadgoode

David Dwyer

Hooded Man

LaTanya Richardson Jackson

Janeen

Bob Hannah

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Ted Manson

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