- George Clooney
- Matt Damon
- Jeffrey Wright
Syriana
Everything
is Connected
Characters
- GEORGE CLOONEY / Bob Barnes: Veteran CIA operative working out of the Middle East
- MAX MINGHELLA / Robby Barnes: Bob's son
- JAMEY SHERIDAN / Terry George: Deputy CIA Chief
- TOM McCARTHY / Fred Franks: Bob's superior at the CIA
- WILLIAM HURT / Stan Goff: Retired CIA agent, longtime associate of Bob Barnes
- VIOLA DAVIS / Marilyn Richards: Deputy National Security Advisor
- JANE ATKINSON / CIA Division Chief
- Killen: Small Texas oil company that is being considered to merge with oil giant Connex
- Connex: Powerful Texas oil company that wants to buy Killen in order to gain the smaller company's drilling rights in Kazakhstan
- CLI: Committee to Liberate Iran
- JEFFREY WRIGHT / Bennett Holiday: Lawyer investigating Connex/Killen merger
- WILLIAM CHARLES MITCHELL / Bennett Holiday, Sr.: Bennett's father
- NICKY HENSON / Sydney Hewitt: Connex's Washington counsel
- CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER / Dean Whiting: Head of the Sloan Whiting law firm that Sydney Hewitt and Bennett Holiday work for. Member of the CLI
- CHRIS COOPER / Jimmy Pope: Owns Killen Oil
- ROBERT FOXWORTH / Tommy Thompson: Connex President
- TIM BLAKE NELSON / Danny Dalton: Texas oilman working with Jimmy Pope. Member of the CLI
- PETER GERETY / Lee Janus: Chairman of Connex Oil. Member of the CLI
- DAVID CLENNON / Asst. Attorney General Donald Farish III: A former law professor of Bennett Holiday's, Farish is investigating the Connex/Killen merger
- MATT DAMON / Bryan Woodman: Energy analyst at an energy trading company, living in Geneva with his wife and two young sons.
- AMANDA PEET / Julie Woodman: Bryan's wife
- ALEXANDER SIDDIG / Prince Nasir Al-Subaai: Reform-minded Gulf Prince, next in line to become Emir of his country
- AKBAR KURTHA / Prince Meshal Al-Subaai: Nasir's younger brother, second in line to the throne
- NADIM SAWALHA / Emir Hamad Al-Subaai: Nasir & Meshal's father, soon to step down as Emir
- MAZHAR MUNIR / Wasim Ahmed Khan: Young migrant worker from Pakistan trying to find work with his father in the oil fields of Prince Nasir's country. He and his father were recently laid off from their jobs in the Connex oil fields when the Prince granted drilling rights to a Chinese corporation
- SHAHID AHMED / Saleem Ahmed Khan: Wasim's father
- SONNELL DADRAL / Farooq: Wasim's friend who first introduces him to the cleric at the madrassa