 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt als Edward Snowden |
 | Shailene Woodley als Lindsay Mills |
 | Melissa Leo als Laura Poitras |
 | Zachary Quinto als Glenn Greenwald |
 | Tom Wilkinson als Ewen MacAskill |
 | Scott Eastwood als Trevor James |
 | Timothy Olyphant als CIA Agent Geneva |
 | Ben Schnetzer als Gabriel Sol |
 | LaKeith Stanfield als Patrick Haynes |
 | Rhys Ifans als Corbin O'Brian |
 | Nicolas Cage als Hank Forrester |
 | Joely Richardson als Janine Gibson |
 | Jaymes Butler als Master Sgt. Robinson |
 | Robert Firth als Dr. Stilwell |
 | Ben Chaplin als Robert Tibbo |
 | Bhasker Patel als Marwan Al-Kirmani |
 | Edward Snowden als Edward Snowden |
 | Christy Meyer als Dr. Laurel |
 | Gregory Schwabe als Drill Sgt. 2 Martinez |
 | Patrick Joseph Byrnes als NSA Dep. Director Lowell |
| Jamie Hodge als Coffee Shop Patron / Pedestrian |
 | Mathangi Ray als Mother - Tong Lau Hong Kong |
 | Alan Rusbridger als Moderator |
 | Stephanie Simbeck als Female Drone Pilot |
 | Logan Marshall-Green als Male Drone Pilot |
 | Demetri Goritsas als CIA Supervisor |
 | Rachel Handshaw als CIA Polygraph Adminstrator |
 | Christian Contreras als CIA Psychologist |
 | Parker Sawyers als CIA Interviewer |
 | Michael Benz als CIA Student |
 | Ken Thomas als Warrenton Gate Guard |
 | Nicholas Rowe als Assistant Editor Guardian |
 | Erol Sander als Diplomat Party Guest |
 | Anatoly Kucherena als Russian Diplomat |
 | Eric Kofi Abrefa als NSA Tunnel Guard 1 |
 | Stanley I. Walker Jr. als NSA Tunnel Guard 2 |
 | Olga Koda als Pole Dancer |
 | Alexandra Adomaitis als CIA Trainee Bangkok (uncredited) |
 | Andreas Dubois als Audience |
 | Barack Obama als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Osama Bin Laden als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Hugo Chávez als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Hillary Clinton als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Sarah Harrison als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | John Kerry als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Michelle Obama als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Vladimir Putin als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
 | Donald Trump als Self (uncredited) |
 | Al Sotto als Coffee Shop Patron (uncredited) |
| Oliver Stone | Director |
| Oliver Stone | Screenplay |
| Kieran Fitzgerald | Screenplay |
| Alex Márquez | Editor |
| Anatoly Kucherena | Novel |
| Luke Harding | Novel |
| Eric Kopeloff | Producer |
| Fernando Sulichin | Producer |
| Moritz Borman | Producer |
| Philip Schulz-Deyle | Producer |
| Hilton Goring | Camera Operator |
| Kyle Dutton | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Jackie Zhou | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sarah Horton | Art Direction |
| Jan Birka | Script Supervisor |
| Nikolaj Georgiew | Helicopter Camera |
| Aryel Melek-Shalom | CG Supervisor |
| Eric Hoehn | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Daniela Backes | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Martin Rinderknecht | Helicopter Camera |
| Ezra Christian | Visual Effects Producer |
| Sven Hübner | Armorer |
| Véronique Melery | Set Decoration |
| Korkut Akir | First Assistant Camera |
| Marcus Pohlus | Steadicam Operator |
| Joshua Sacavage | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Julie DeRose | Art Department Coordinator |
| Mike Prestwood Smith | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Lee Percy | Editor |
| Mary Vernieu | Casting |
| Christina Graff | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Mario Uy | Armorer |
| Marisol Roncali | Casting Associate |
| Jo Heim | Second Unit Cinematographer |
| Paul Graff | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Kris Fenske | Sound Designer |
| Wylie Stateman | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Adam O'Neill | Supervising Art Director |
| Katherine Gordon Miller | Music Editor |
| Ian Sheddan | Visual Effects Producer |
| Jay Peck | Foley |
| Cory Ching | Set Costumer |
| Laine Rykes | Makeup Artist |
| Veronika Tober | Makeup Artist |
| Kat Spiess | First Assistant Editor |
| Lucy Bevan | Casting |
| Mark Tildesley | Production Design |
| Carl Obereisenbuchner | Art Department Coordinator |
| Gary A. Hecker | Foley |
| Rick Owens | Foley |
| Emily Brockmann | Casting Associate |
| Ben Smith | Animation Director |
| Max Fischer | Steadicam Operator |
| Jürgen Olczyk | Still Photographer |
| Lauren F. Ellis | Visual Effects Producer |
| Jamie McIntyre | Visual Effects Producer |
| Claudius Rauch | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Christine Fennell | Hairstylist |
| Bina Daigeler | Costume Design |
| Thomas Neivelt | Gaffer |
| Jeremy Newmark | Visual Effects Editor |
| Waldemar Pokromski | Makeup Department Head |
| Anthony Dod Mantle | Director of Photography |
| Uwe Stanik | Art Direction |
| Gregg Swiatlowski | Dialogue Editor |
| Bastian Volkmer | Stunts |
| Christian Petersson | Stunts |
| Jan Böhme | Stunt Double |
| Torsten Jerabek | Stunt Coordinator |
| Steffen Jung | Stunts |
| Christopher Woodrow | Executive Producer |
| Robert S. Wilson | Co-Producer |
| Joshua Sussman | Associate Producer |
| Mark Popp | Line Producer |
| Lucy Lu | Line Producer |
| Olivier Cottet-Puinel | Executive Producer |
| Romain Le Grand | Executive Producer |
| Alan Rusbridger | Associate Producer |
| Bahman Naraghi | Executive Producer |
| Douglas Hansen | Executive Producer |
| James D. Stern | Executive Producer |
| Rene Kock | Co-Producer |
| Max Arvelaiz | Executive Producer |
| Tom Ortenberg | Executive Producer |
| Peter Lawson | Executive Producer |
| José Ibáñez | Executive Producer |
| Janet Lee | Associate Producer |
| Jérôme Seydoux | Executive Producer |
| Michael Bassick | Executive Producer |
| Craig Armstrong | Original Music Composer |
