This page lists the cast.
Ethan Hawke as Nikola Tesla
- Film Protagonist
- Electrical Discoverer and Inventor
- visualized, designed and constructed the first power system using alternating current, through which electrons pulsing (alternating, switching current direction) along a conductive wire carry contained energy in the form of electric and magnetic waves (electricity).
- implemented 40+ patents at Niagara Falls related to alternating current, hydroelectric power, transformers
- claimed a number of international patents related to wireless energy and communication
- ” […] first person to hear the sound of one planet greeting another.”
- Link: IMDb Record for Ethan Hawke
Eve Hewson as Anne Morgan
- Film Narrator
- Daughter of J.P Morgan
- but matter-of-fact in her criticism of capitalist modes
- Philanthropist with Socialist tendencies
- Friend & feigned love interest of Nikola Tesla
- Link: IMDb Record for Eve Hewson
Kyle MacLachlan as Thomas Edison
- Film Antagonist
- Operated Edison Machine Works, where he and hired scientists (including Tesla for some time) tested and manufactured electrical devices
- Patented direct current technology for use in early electrical grids
- Provoked “The War of the Currents” to maintain DIRECT CURRENT supremacy while ALTERNATING CURRENT technologies proved more efficient and effective at carrying electrical voltage across distance.
- Link: IMDb Record for Kyle MacLachlan
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Anital Szigeti
- Longtime friend and co-worker of Tesla
- Claimed to witness Tesla’s early visualization (ie, drawing in the sand) of a power system for alternating current
- Link: IMDb Record for Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Jim Gaffigan as George Westinghouse
- Fellow inventor and investor
- Funded Tesla’s work on alternating current
- Niagara Falls project
- Link: IMDb Record for Jim Gaffigan
Donnie Keshawarz as JP Morgan
- Capitalist, international banker and investor
- Father of Anne Morgan
- Funded Tesla’s work on wireless electricity and communication
- Formed US Steel Corporation, the world’s first billion-dollar company
- Link: IMDb Record for Donnie Keshawarz
Rebecca Dayan as Sarah Bernhardt
- Performer “in motion all her life”
- Near-love interest of Tesla
- Toured Tesla’s Pavilion of Light at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
- Link: IMDb Record for Rebecca Dayan
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