"Aretha: Amazing Grace" is the sixth episode in the third season of Genius. It is the twenty-sixth episode overall.
Plot Summary[]
Aretha records her bestselling live gospel album "Amazing Grace" in 1972 at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church; Little Re discovers that she's pregnant with her second child, forcing her to leave school.
Cast[]
- Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin
- Malcolm Barrett as Ted White
- Patrice Covington as Erma Franklin
- Rebecca Naomi Jones as Carolyn Franklin
- David Cross as Jerry Wexler
- Kimberly Hébert Gregory as Ruth Bowen
- Shaian Jordan as Little Re (young Aretha)
- Courtney B. Vance as C. L. Franklin
Guest Starring[]
- Omar J. Dorsey as James Cleveland
- Pauletta Washington as Rachel Franklin
- Keith Arthur Bolden as Recording Studio Man
- Steven G. Norfleet as Cecil Franklin
- Antonique Smith as Barbara Franklin
- T.I. as Ken Cunningham