Gerard Butler (Mike Banning), Aaron Eckhart (Benjamin Asher), Morgan Freeman (Vizepräsident Trumbull), Angela Bassett (Lynn Jacobs), Alon Aboutboul (Aamir Barkawi), Charlotte Riley (Jacquelin Marshall), Robert Forster (General Edward Clegg), Melissa Leo (Verteidigungsministerin Ruth McMillan), Radha Mitchell (Leah), Sean O'Bryan (Director Ray Monroe), Adel Bencherif (Raza Mansoor), Shivani Ghai (Amal Mansoor), Mehdi Dehbi (Sultan Mansoor), Penny Downie (Home Secretary Rose Kenter), Nigel Whitmey (kanadischer Premier Robert Bowman), Nancy Baldwin (Bundeskanzlerin Agnes Bruckner), Guy Williams (britischer Premier Leighton Clarkson), Philip Delancy (Jacques Mainard), Waleed Zuaiter (Kamran Barkawi), Jackie Earle Haley (Deputy Chief Mason), Andrew Pleavin (Bronson), Colin Salmon (Chief Hazard), Deborah Grant (Doris), Elsa Mollien (Viviana Gusto), Julia Montgomery Brown (Bowmans Frau), Michael Wildman (Agent Voight), Jorge Leon Martinez (Secret Service-Agent), Mark Preston (Secret Service-Agent), Mac Pietowski (Secret Service-Agent), Patrick Kennedy (John Lancaster), Nikesh Patel (Pradhan), Bryan Larkin (Davies), Owen Davis (JSOC-Offizier), Dilyana Bouklieva (Polizistin), Alex Giannini (Antoni Gusto)