Crash Cast

Crash Cast

Meet the Cast

Detective Graham Waters (Don Cheadle)

Crash Into HimDetective Graham Waters is a racially insensitive police detective who is sleeping with his partner, Ria, another racially insensitive police detective. These two should be perfect fo...

Cameron and Christine Thayer (Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton)

Black or White or Red All OverWe have to wonder if the casting call for Cameron and Christine Thayer asked for actors on the lighter end of the Starbucks Skin Scale. Maybe somewhere between "Café...

Anthony (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges)

Robbin' tha HoodWith his friend Peter, Anthony carjacks Jean and Rick Cabot. He takes their vehicle to a chop shop. We have no clue where to even find a chop shop, so we have a feeling Anthony has...

Peter Waters (Larenz Tate)

Troubled WatersPeter Waters tags along with Anthony, robbing white folks and making fun of Anthony's insane rants. We're not sure why he hangs out with Anthony, but it seems that when he isn't, Pet...

Jean Cabot (Sandra Bullock)

First World ProblemsJean Cabot is a rich white lady who is the wife of DA Rick Cabot. Crash doesn't have a single character it doesn't want to stereotype, so Jean is the worst kind of rich, bored h...

Officer John Ryan (Matt Dillon)

Trigger FingerOfficer John Ryan is a racist LAPD cop. Considering the LAPD's history, "racist LAPD cop" might be a redundancy. More than being a racist, however, John Ryan is a power-hungry jerk. H...

Officer Tom Hanson (Ryan Phillippe)

Officer MmmbopAfter dropping out of the band formed by his brothers Isaac, Taylor, and Zac, Tom Hanson became a cop. In Crash, he finds himself partnered with Officer John Ryan, whose gross behavio...

Farhad (Shaun Toub)

Mall MadnessFarhad is a Persian shopkeeper with anger management issues. When we first meet him, he's buying a gun to defend his shop. He has a reason to: the shop has been vandalized multiple time...

Daniel Ruiz (Michael Peña)

The KeymasterRich white lady Jean Cabot says, within earshot of the locksmith, that she thinks he's a thug because he has prison tattoos. But when he goes home, we see that this guy is a family man...

Ria (Jennifer Esposito)

Mo' Ria, or Less Ria?Ria is one of the first characters we meet, along with her police detective partner, Graham Waters. We get to know his full name, but she's always Ria. Is it short for Maria? V...

Kim Lee (Alexis Rhee)

Li'l KimKim Lee is the woman involved in a traffic accident with Ria at the beginning of the film. She totally blames Ria, of course.KIM LEE: Mexicans no know how to drive. She blake too fast. We'r...

Flanagan (William Fichtner)

It's About Ethics in PolicingFlanagan works with DA Rick Cabot and Detective Waters on the case of Detective Conklin. Conklin shot another member of the force, Detective Lewis, who was Black, but W...

Shaniqua Johnson (Loretta Devine)

Like a Bad Neighbor, Shaniqua Johnson's Not ThereShaniqua Johnson is an insurance agent who denies Officer Ryan's father's insurance request because Officer Ryan is a total jerk to her.That means S...

Rick Cabot

George of the Urban JungleWe like to imagine that two Brendan Fraser characters, George of the Jungle and Rick Cabot, are the same. After swinging from trees in the jungle, George changes his name...

Dorri (Bahar Soomekh)

Finding DorriDorri is Farhad's daughter—and maybe the only character in this movie with common sense. When Farhad buys a gun, for example, here's what Dorri has to say to him: FARHAD: I don't kno...