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The Weight of the Nation

America's obesity epidemic--its causes, symptoms, treatments, solutions, and more--is the focus of this multi-part, multimedia HBO project.

Actor

20 Credits
Larry Dwyer
Self
Cindy Roach
Self - School Bus Driver
Gerald Berenson
Self - Founder, Bogalusa Heart Study, Tulane University School of Medicine
Peter Katzmarzyk
Self - Epidemiologist, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Stephanie Broyles
Self - Epidemiologist, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Kathy Pigott
Self - Teacher, Bogalusa Middle School
Joe Culpepper
Self - Bogalusa Police Department
Jack P. Shonkoff
Self - Director, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
Thomas Frieden
Self - Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Shiriki Kumanyika
Self - Professor of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Marlene Schwartz
Self - Deputy Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University
Francis Collins
Francis Collins
Self - Director, National Institutes of Health
Rudy Leibel
Self - Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Thomas Farley
Self - Commissioner, NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Deborah Lomax
Self - Deputy Director, Bronx District Public Health Office
Michael Nutter
Self - Mayor of Philadelphia
America Bracho
Self - Executive Director, Latino Health Access
Tony Iton
Self - Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities, Tha California Endowment
Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge
Self - Director, Bureau of Family, Youth, and Infant Health, City of Nashville
Karl Dean
Self - Mayor of Nashville
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