A Lesson Before Dying is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the 1993 novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie and a Peabody Award.
Cast and characters Don Cheadle as Grant Wiggins Cicely Tyson as Tante Lou Mekhi Phifer as Jefferson Irma P. Hall as Miss Emma Brent Jennings as Reverend Ambrose Lisa Arrindell Anderson as Vivian Baptiste Frank Hoyt Taylor as Sheriff Guidry Stuart Culpepper as Henri Pichot Patty Mack as Inez Elijah Kelley as Clarence Wynton Yates as Louis Washington Clay Chappell as Paul Cierra Meche as Estelle
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