The Martian (2015) has at least 2 Black credited characters out of 54.
The Van Lathan Ratio · 4%
At least 4% of the credited cast.
26 actors have no public bio we could find, so the real number may be higher. Why.
Every credited role on TMDB, in billing order. Uncredited roles are left out. marks actors we counted as Black; marks actors with no public bio we could find, so we couldn't check them. How actors are tagged.
| # | Actor | Character | Black |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Damon | Mark Watney | |
| 2 | Jessica Chastain | Melissa Lewis | |
| 3 | Kristen Wiig | Annie Montrose | |
| 4 | Jeff Daniels | Theodore "Teddy" Sanders | |
| 5 | Michael Peña | Rick Martinez | |
| 6 | Sean Bean | Mitch Henderson | |
| 7 | Kate Mara | Beth Johanssen | |
| 8 | Sebastian Stan | Chris Beck | |
| 9 | Aksel Hennie | Alex Vogel | |
| 10 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Vincent Kapoor | ●Counted as Black |
| 11 | Benedict Wong | Bruce Ng | |
| 12 | Mackenzie Davis | Mindy Park | |
| 13 | Donald Glover | Rich Purnell | ●Counted as Black |
| 14 | Nick Mohammed | Tim Grimes | |
| 15 | Chen Shu | Zhu Tao | |
| 16 | Eddy Ko Hung | Guo Ming | |
| 17 | Enzo Cilenti | Mike Watkins | |
| 18 | Jonathan Aris | Brendan Hatch | |
| 19 | Gruffudd Glyn | Jack | ?No public bio we could find |
| 20 | Geoffrey Thomas | U.S. President | ?No public bio we could find |
| 21 | Yang Haiwen | Chinese Flight Director | ?No public bio we could find |
| 22 | Narantsogt Tsogtsaikhan | Wen Jiang | ?No public bio we could find |
| 23 | Brian Caspe | Timer Controller | |
| 24 | Szonja Oroszlán | Launch Control | ?No public bio we could find |
| 25 | Mark O'Neal | Guidance | ?No public bio we could find |
| 26 | Karen Gagnon | Reporter 2 | ?No public bio we could find |
| 27 | Lili Bordán | Blair | |
| 28 | Nikolett Barabas | Reporter 1 | |
| 29 | Dilyana Bouklieva | Police Woman | ?No public bio we could find |
| 30 | Björn Freiberg | Nasa Staff Member | |
| 31 | James Fred Harkins Jr. | Pathfinder Developer | ?No public bio we could find |
| 32 | Sam Spruell | NASA Psychologist | |
| 33 | Matt Devere | Satcon | |
| 34 | Mike Kelly | Launcher Interface | ?No public bio we could find |
| 35 | Greg De Cuir | Capcom | ?No public bio we could find |
| 36 | Peter Linka | Telemetry | ?No public bio we could find |
| 37 | Declan Hannigan | Comms | ?No public bio we could find |
| 38 | Peter Schueller | NASA Break Room Worker | ?No public bio we could find |
| 39 | Waleska Latorre | Vincent's Secretary | ?No public bio we could find |
| 40 | Frederik Pleitgen | CNN Reporter | |
| 41 | Charlie Gardner | Robert Lewis | ?No public bio we could find |
| 42 | Nóra Lili Hörich | Vogel's Wife | ?No public bio we could find |
| 43 | Kamilla Fátyol | Marissa Martinez | ?No public bio we could find |
| 44 | Yang Liu | Chinese Translator | ?No public bio we could find |
| 45 | Richard Rifkin | JPL Store Man | |
| 46 | Nicholas Wittman | JPL White Room Worker | ?No public bio we could find |
| 47 | Ben O'Brien | JPL Pathfinder Team | ?No public bio we could find |
| 48 | Scott Alexander Young | JPL Pathfinder Team | ?No public bio we could find |
| 49 | Jason Ryan | JPL Pathfinder Team | ?No public bio we could find |
| 50 | James Dougherty | JPL Pathfinder Team | ?No public bio we could find |
| 51 | Xue Xuxing | Ming's Secretary | ?No public bio we could find |
| 52 | Balázs Medveczky | JPL White Room Worker | ?No public bio we could find |
| 53 | Dora Endre | Receptionist | |
| 54 | Naomi Scott | Ryoko |
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