Main Characters From Hidden Figures That Didn't Exist In Real Life

Publish date: 2024-05-04

In "Hidden Figures," the main characters are Johnson, Vaughan, and Jackson, with a focus on Johnson's story in particular. Other major characters, who portray the mostly white staff at NASA, have a significant role in the movie. Actor Kevin Costner plays Al Harrison, a supervisor who heads the Space Task Group that Katherine Johnson worked with. In the movie, he ends bathroom segregation (posted on YouTube) and gives Johnson access to meetings she was initially shut out of. 

However, these scenes were fictionalized. As was his character. According to NASA, there was no man named Al Harrison who directed that division. The timeline of when Johnson worked there shows that she worked under the direction of Robert C. Gilruth, on whom the filmmakers mostly based the character. However, because the task group consistently saw different managerial heads, the movie's creators decided to combine several of them to create the composite character that Costner played.

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