Harrison Ford (Präsident James Marshall), Gary Oldman (Ivan Korshunov), Glenn Close (Vizepräsidentin Kathryn Bennett), Paul Guilfoyle (Stabschef Lloyd Shepherd), Jürgen Prochnow (General Ivan Radek), Wendy Crewson (Grace Marshall), Xander Berkeley (Agent Gibbs), William H. Macy (Major Caldwell), Dean Stockwell (Verteidigunsminister Walter Dean), Elya Baskin (Andrei Kolchak), Donna Bullock (stellvertretende Pressesprecherin Melanie Mitchel), Liesel Matthews (Alice Marshall), David Vadim (Igor Nevsky), Tom Everett (NSA-Berater Jack Doherty), Alan Woolf (Russischer Präsident Petrov), Michael Ray Miller (AFO Pilot Colonel Axelrod), Carl Weintraub (AFO Co-Pilot Lt. Col. Ingrahams), Elester Latham (AFO Navigator / Major Bridges), Andrew Divoff (Boris Bazylev), Ilia Volok (Vladimir Krasin), Chris Howell (Major Perkins), Spencer Garrett (Thomas Lee, Helfer im Weißen Haus), Bill Smitrovich (General Northwood), Philip Baker Hall (U.S. Generalstaatsanwalt Andrew Ward)