 | Tom Hanks als Captain Richard Phillips |
 | Barkhad Abdi als Muse |
 | Barkhad Abdirahman als Bilal |
 | Faysal Ahmed als Najee |
 | Mahat M. Ali als Elmi |
 | Michael Chernus als Shane Murphy |
 | David Warshofsky als Mike Perry |
 | Corey Johnson als Ken Quinn |
 | Chris Mulkey als John Cronan |
 | Yul Vazquez als Captain Frank Castellano |
 | Max Martini als SEAL Commander |
 | Catherine Keener als Andrea Phillips |
 | Omar Berdouni als Nemo |
| Mohamed Ali als Asad |
| Issak Farah Samatar als Hufan |
| Thomas Grube als Maersk Alabama Crew |
 | Mark Holden als Maersk Alabama Crew |
 | San Shella als Maersk Alabama Crew |
 | Terence Anderson als Maersk Alabama Crew |
| Marc Anwar als Maersk Alabama Crew |
 | David Webber als Maersk Alabama Crew |
 | Amr El-Bayoumi als Maersk Alabama Crew |
| Vincenzo Nicoli als Maersk Alabama Crew |
| Kapil Arun als Maersk Alabama Crew |
 | Louis Mahoney als Maersk Alabama Crew |
 | Peter Landi als Maersk Alabama Crew |
 | Angus MacInnes als Maersk Alabama Crew |
| Ian Ralph als Maersk Alabama Crew |
| Kristian Hjordt Beck als Maersk Alabama Crew |
| Kurt Larsen als Maersk Alabama Crew |
| Bader Choukouko als Somali Boy |
| Idurus Shiish als Pirate Leader |
 | Azeez Mohammed als Pirate Leader |
| Abdurazak Ahmed Adan als Pirate Leader |
| Duran Mohamed Hassan als Asad's Crew |
 | Nasir Jama als Asad's Crew |
| Kadz Souleiman als Asad's Crew |
| Scott Oates als Navy SEAL Group |
 | David B. Meadows als Navy SEAL Group |
| Shad Jason Hamilton als Navy SEAL Group |
| Adam Wendling als Navy SEAL Group |
| Billy Jenkins als Navy SEAL Group |
 | Mark Semos als Navy SEAL Group |
| Dean Franchuk als Navy SEAL Group |
 | Rey Hernandez als Navy SEAL Group |
 | Christopher Stadulis als Navy SEAL Group |
 | Roger Edwards als Navy SEAL Group |
 | John Patrick Barry als Navy SEAL Group |
| Raleigh Morse als Navy SEAL Group |
| Dale McClellan als Navy SEAL Group |
| Hugh Middleton als Navy SEAL Group |
| Raymond Care als Navy SEAL Group |
 | Stacha Hicks als UKMTO Officer |
| Will Bowden als US Maritime Officer |
| Len Anderson IV als USS Bainbridge VBSS Officer |
| Giovanni Alabiso als Airport Passenger (uncredited) |
| Devon Black als Able Seaman L. Haddock (uncredited) |
| Joshua Brown als Burlington Airport TSA Agent (uncredited) |
| Steve Campbell als Lieutenant Commander Scott Atherton (uncredited) |
| Bob Dio als TV News Reporter (uncredited) |
 | Maria Dizzia als Allison McColl (uncredited) |
| Herman Gambhir als US Maritime Officer (uncredited) |
 | Georgia Goodman als US Maritime Aldington (uncredited) |
| Kevin Spacey | Executive Producer |
| Michael De Luca | Producer |
| Paul Kirby | Production Design |
| Paul Greengrass | Director |
| Billy Ray | Screenplay |
| Eli Bush | Executive Producer |
| Dana Brunetti | Producer |
| Scott Rudin | Producer |
| Barry Ackroyd | Director of Photography |
| Gregory Goodman | Executive Producer |
| Christopher Rouse | Editor |
| Mark Bridges | Costume Design |
| Henry Jackman | Original Music Composer |
| Francine Maisler | Casting |
| Mark Peterson | Costume Supervisor |
| Joseph Kearney | Construction Coordinator |
| Lynda Foote | Costume Supervisor |
| Kevin Anthony | Construction Coordinator |
| Dan Hubbard | Casting |
| Peter Russell | Set Designer |
| Debbie DeLisi | Casting |
| Charlie Noble | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Martin Chamney | CG Supervisor |
| Cosmo Campbell | Camera Operator |
| Driss Benchhiba | Location Manager |
| Oliver Tarney | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Colleen Gibbons | Location Manager |
| Sara Deane | Camera Operator |
| Charles Libin | Camera Operator |
| Roger Marbury | Rigging Gaffer |
| Mark Sansone | Location Manager |
| Stefan Gerstheimer | CG Supervisor |
| Rob Inch | Stunt Coordinator |
| James Harrison | Sound Designer |
| Daniel Barrow | Visual Effects Producer |
| Austin Cross | Rigging Gaffer |
| Tom Harrison-Read | First Assistant Editor |
| Tina Richardson | Visual Effects Editor |
| Julia Chiavetta | Script Supervisor |
| Ed Cross | Visual Effects Editor |
| Stuart Farley | CG Supervisor |
| Jasin Boland | Still Photographer |
| Dillon Bennett | Sound Effects Editor |
| Chris Burdon | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Kristopher Wright | Visual Effects Producer |
| Annie Penn | Script Supervisor |
| Ravi Dube | Location Manager |
| Owliya A. Dima | Translator |
| Raymond Pumilia | Art Direction |
| Andy Taylor | Visual Effects Producer |
| Daniel Pinder | Music Editor |
| Adam Rowland | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Hopper Stone | Still Photographer |
| Kevin Hickman | First Assistant Editor |
| Samuel Sharpe | Transportation Coordinator |
| Jacques Haitkin | Camera Operator |
| Richard Whitfield | Music Editor |
| Stephen G. Shifflette | Leadman |
| Mike Prestwood Smith | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Charles Harrington | Location Manager |
| Michael Fentum | Sound Designer |
| Charlo Dalli | Art Direction |
| Kathy Driscoll-Mohler | Casting Associate |
| Frances Hannon | Makeup Designer |
| Dominic Tuohy | Special Effects Supervisor |
| David Pinkus | Casting Associate |
| David Fencl | Armorer |
| Frances Hannon | Hair Designer |
| Lynn Younglove | Casting Associate |
| Dominic Capon | Set Decoration |
| Mark Taylor | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Brenda McNally | Key Hair Stylist |
| Trish Seeney | Key Makeup Artist |
| Dorey Cilia | Makeup & Hair |
| Chris Carreras | First Assistant Director |
| Mark S. Constance | Second Assistant Director |
| Colin Azzopardi | Second Assistant Director |
| Jason Altieri | Second Assistant Director |
| Ahmed Hatimi | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Steve Battaglia | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Eric Fox Hays | Second Unit First Assistant Director |
| Chris Forster | Second Unit Director |
| Gina Bonello | Costume Assistant |
| Ernest Camilleri | Costume Coordinator |
| Ron Goodman | Aerial Director of Photography |
| Chris Mortley | Assistant Chief Lighting Technician |
| Tom Keenan | Best Boy Electric |
| Anthony Benjamin | Best Boy Grip |
| Geoffrey Rockwell | Best Boy Grip |
| Nick Haines-Stiles | Best Boy Grip |
| Harry Wiggins | Chief Lighting Technician |
| Frans Wetterings III | Chief Lighting Technician |
| Jay Kemp | Chief Lighting Technician |
| David Rist | Dolly Grip |
| James Heerdegen | Dolly Grip |
| Andrew Sweeney | Dolly Grip |
| Oliver Driscoll | First Assistant "A" Camera |
| Christopher Raymond | First Assistant "B" Camera |
| Kristopher Hardy | First Assistant "B" Camera |
| Ethan Borsuk | First Assistant "C" Camera |
| Kevin Fraser | Key Grip |
| Frank A. Montesanto | Key Grip |
| Charlie Marroquin | Key Grip |
| Charles A. Harris | Key Rigging Grip |
| Gary Lambert | Rigging Grip |
| Tonja Greenfield | Second Assistant "A" Camera |
| Jordan Boston Jones | Second Assistant "B" Camera |
| Sam Pearcy | Second Assistant "C" Camera |
| Mark Silk | Underwater Director of Photography |
| Niels Reedtz Johansen | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| Bernie Prentice | Underwater Gaffer |
| Trey Shaffer | Graphic Designer |
| David Cheesman | Property Master |
| Robin L. Miller | Property Master |
| Steve George | Property Master |
| J. Edward Fitzgerald | Assistant Property Master |
| Paul Richards | Art Direction |
| Keir Stewart | ADR Engineer |
| Mike Tehrani | ADR Recordist |
| Rachael Tate | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Steve Finn | Boom Operator |
| Joel Reidy | Boom Operator |
| William Towers | Boom Operator |
| Richard Bullock Jr. | Boom Operator |
| Rob Killick | Dialogue Editor |
| Peter Burgis | Foley Artist |
| Jason Swanscott | Foley Artist |
| Mark Taylor | Foley Editor |
| Glen Gathard | Foley Mixer |
| Tim Fraser | Production Sound Mixer |
| Chris Munro | Production Sound Mixer |
| Michael Fentum | Sound Effects Designer |
| James Harrison | Sound Effects Designer |
| Pud Cusack | Sound Mixer |
| Simon Chase | Supervising ADR Editor |
| Bjørn Ole Schroeder | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Christian Bull | CG Artist |
| Richard Durant | CG Artist |
| Oliver Cubbage | CG Artist |
| Huw J. Evans | Sequence Supervisor |
| Tilman Paulin | Compositing Supervisor |
| David Crabtree | Matchmove Supervisor |
| Sara Emack | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Judith Gericke | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Mariana Mandelli | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Lisa Kelly | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Kenneth Manzoni | Marine Coordinator |
| Daniel F. Malone | Marine Coordinator |
| Bruce A. Ross | Marine Coordinator |
| S.R. Conger | Production Accountant |
| Clare Aldington | Production Assistant |
| Jimmy Buxton | Production Assistant |
| Denise Rowena Formosa | Production Assistant |
| Joseph Quinn | Production Assistant |
| Amy Roberts | Production Assistant |
| Sarah Michelle Attard | Production Assistant |
| Karen Xuereb | Production Assistant |
| Harry Fallon | Production Assistant |
| Scott Hatfield | Production Assistant |
| Edward Allen | Production Controller |
| Jonathan Scott | Production Coordinator |
| Sallie Beechinor | Production Coordinator |
| Widad Taha | Production Coordinator |
| Kevin Baulcomb | Production Secretary |
| Laurence Chisholm | Production Secretary |
| Jackie Bazan | Publicist |
| Mohamedamin Isaq Abdulrahman | Translator |
| Elizabeth Chodar | Casting Assistant |
| Michelle White | Casting Assistant |
| Esther Bailey | Assistant Editor |
| Mark Fitzgerald | Additional Editor |
| Rob Farris | Digital Intermediate Producer |
| Mo Henry | Negative Cutter |
| Michael Higham | Music Supervisor |
| Jack Dolman | Supervising Music Editor |
