Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story (2008): Cast

Based on true events, the film follows Lena Baker, an African‑American woman in Georgia who endures severe hardship, makes difficult choices, and ultimately faces the death penalty. In 1945 she became the state’s only woman sentenced to the electric chair; she was executed, then posthumously pardoned in 2005.

• RW Director Ralph Wilcox

• Tichina Arnold as Lena Baker
• Peter Coyote as Elliot Arthur
• CB Chris Burns as Max Arthur
• DB Dwayne Boyd as Juke Joint Man

Also known as

• Die Lena Baker Story
• Невыдуманная история Лены Беккер
• A Verdadeira História de Lena Baker
• 雷娜·贝克的故事