Matt Damon

Narrator

William Ackman

Self - Hedge Fund Manager

Barack Obama

Self (archive footage)

George W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Jonathan Alpert

Self - Therapist

Christine Lagarde

Self - Finance Minister, France

Ann Curry

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Daniel Alpert

Self - Managing Director, Westwood Capital

Sigridur Benediktsdottir

Self - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament

Gylfi Zoega

Self - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland

Andri Snær Magnason

Self - Writer & Filmmaker

Paul Volcker

Self - Former Federal Reserve Chairman

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Self - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

George Soros

Self - Chairman, Soros Fund Management

Barney Frank

Self - Chairman, Financial Services Committee

Scott Talbott

Self - Chief Lobbyist, Financial Services Roundtable

Andrew Sheng

Self - Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission

Lee Hsien Loong

Self - Prime Minister, Singapore

Gillian Tett

Self - U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times

Nouriel Roubini

Self - Professor, NYU Business School

R. Glenn Hubbard

Self - Chief Economic Adviser, Bush Administration

Eliot Spitzer

Self - Former Governor, New York

Samuel Hayes

Self - Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School

Robert Gnaizda

Self - Former Director, Greenlining Institute

Willem Buiter

Self - Chief Economist, Citigroup

Andrew Lo

Self - Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering

Michael Greenberger

Himself - Former Deputy Director, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Satyajit Das

Self - Derivatives Consultant

Frank Partnoy

Himself - Professor of Law & Finance, University of California San Diego

Eric Halperin

Self - Director, Center for Responsible Learning

Martin Wolf

Self - Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times

Kenneth Rogoff

Self - Professor of Economics, Harvard

Raghuram Rajan

Self - Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund

Lawrence McDonald

Self - Former Vice President, Lehman Brothers

Harvey Miller

Self - Lehman's Bankruptcy Lawyer

Kristin Davis

Self - Manhattan Madam

Allan Sloan

Self - Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine

Jerome Fons

Self - Former Managing Director, Moody's Rating Agency

Frederic Mishkin

Self - Governor, Federal Reserve

David McCormick

Self - Under Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration