List of Characters from Crash
Character’s Name
Graham Waters
Played by (Actor’s Name)
Don Cheadle
Brief Description of Character
African-American detective investigating
shooting of Detective Lewis
Ria
Jennifer Esposito
El Salvadorian/Puerto Rican detective also
on the Lewis case; she and Graham are
romantically involved.
Rick
Brendan Fraser
Caucasian district attorney whose SUV is
carjacked near the beginning of the movie
Jean
Sandra Bullock
Rick’s uptight wife
Maria
Yomi Perry
Rick and Jean’s Latina housekeeper/nanny
Anthony
Chris “Ludacris” Bridges
Young African-American man who steals
cars & tries to educate his friend, Peter, on
various forms of racism
Peter
Larenz Tate
Graham’s younger brother & Anthony’s
friend. He likes hockey, is later shot
by Officer Hanson
Cameron
Terrence Howard
African-American TV director who is
harrassed by Officer Ryan in a traffic stop
Christine
Thandie Newton
Cameron’s wife who is sexually molested by
Officer Ryan during a traffic stop (& later
rescued by him after a car crash)
Officer Ryan
Matt Dillon
Caucasian officer on the LAPD for 17 years
who has obvious racial prejudices
Officer Hanson
Ryan Phillipe
Rookie cop who no longer wants to ride
with Ryan. Hanson later helps Cameron go
with a warning but then shoots Peter after
he picks him up as a hitchhiker.
Daniel
Michael Pena
Latino locksmith who gives his 5-year-old
daughter an “impenetrable cloak”
Lara
Ashlyn Sanchez
Daniel’s 5-year-old daughter
Elizabeth
Karina Arroyave
Daniel’s wife/ Lara’s mother
Farhad
Shaun Toub
Iranian storeowner who tries to shoot Daniel
but who ends up “shooting” Lara
Shereen
Marina Sirtis
Farhad’s wife
Dorri
Bahar Soomekh
Farhad & Shereen’s daughter. She works in
in the medical field & does not want her
father to have a gun (She buys “blanks”).
Character’s Name
Played by (Actor’s Name)
Brief Description of Character
Choi
Greg Joung Paik
Korean man who is hit by Anthony
and Peter as they are driving the
Lincoln Navigator
Kim Lee
Alexis Ree
Choi’s wife (She’s also the woman
involved in the car crash with Ria &
Graham at the beginning of the film.)
Shaniqua Johnson
Lorretta Devine
African-American woman who is the
supervisor of health insurance claims.
She has Officer Ryan thrown out of
her office.
Fred
Tony Danza
Caucasian man who works with
Cameron at the TV studio & asks
him to reshoot a scene because a
character didn’t sound “black enough.”
Lieutenant Dixon
Keith David
African-American LAPD lieutenant
who advises Officer Hanson to say
he has “uncontrollable flatulence” in
order to get out of riding with Ryan
Detective Conklin
Martine Norseman
Caucasian police officer who is being
accused of shooting Detective Lewis
Detective Lewis
African-American detective who was
shot in a car belonging to someone
else. Large sums of $ ($300,000?)
were discovered in spare tire of car.
Flanagan
William Fichtner
Works for D.A. Rick, tries to
persuade Graham to say that Conklin
shot Lewis (Such a statement would
politically benefit the D.A.)
Graham’s mother
Beverly Todd
Graham’s mother who blames him
for his brother’s death since she
thinks that Graham was “too busy”
to bother looking for his brother like
she had asked him to do.
Gunstore owner
Jack McGee
Owner of gunstore who hurls ethnic
slurs at Farhad & then makes
sexually suggestive comments toward
Farhad’s daughter, Dorri.
On the essay portion of the final, please refer to the characters by the character name (NOT the
actor’s name) whenever possible!