Ocean's Eleven Cast: Full Cast and Crew of Every Film

The cast of Ocean's Eleven (2001), directed by Steven Soderbergh, is headed by George Clooney as Danny Ocean and Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan, backed by a deep ensemble of specialists. TMDB bills fifteen names, and the first thirteen are the heist team, the casino owner Terry Benedict and Tess Ocean.

Behind the two leads come Andy Garcia as Terry Benedict, Matt Damon as Linus Caldwell and Julia Roberts as Tess Ocean. Casey Affleck plays Virgil Malloy and Scott Caan plays Turk Malloy, while Don Cheadle is Basher Tarr, Elliott Gould is Reuben Tishkoff and Eddie Jemison is Livingston Dell. Bernie Mac plays Frank Catton, Shaobo Qin plays Yen and Carl Reiner plays Saul Bloom. Cecelia Ann Birt and Paul L. Nolan close the list as the two board member voices.

In Ocean's Eleven (2001), Danny Ocean (George Clooney) assembles a team to rob a vault shared by three Las Vegas casinos owned by Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). Danny walks out of a New Jersey prison and starts planning at once, and Benedict is now dating Danny's ex-wife Tess (Julia Roberts). Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) is the old partner who helps recruit the specialists, among them a pickpocket, a demolitions expert, a card dealer and an acrobat. The plan is timed for a big boxing match night, when the vault holds its most cash. For more on each role, see the Ocean's Eleven characters page, including Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan and Terry Benedict.

Ocean's Eleven (1960), directed by Lewis Milestone, starred Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean and Dean Martin as Sam Harmon. Sammy Davis Jr. played Josh Howard, Peter Lawford played Jimmy Foster and Angie Dickinson played Beatrice Ocean. Richard Conte, Cesar Romero, Patrice Wymore, Joey Bishop and Akim Tamiroff filled out the top ten billing. TCM notes that Milestone had a difficult time handling Sinatra, and Dean Martin is tied to the film's song about a kick in the head.

Ocean's Twelve (2004) brought in Catherine Zeta-Jones as the Europol detective Isabel Lahiri and Vincent Cassel as François Toulour, the rival thief known as the Night Fox. Ocean's Thirteen (2007) added Al Pacino as the hotel developer Willy Bank and Ellen Barkin as Abigail Sponder. Ocean's Eight (2018), directed by Gary Ross, is led by Sandra Bullock as Debbie Ocean, with Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna and Helena Bonham Carter.

Steven Soderbergh directed Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007), which makes him the longest serving filmmaker in the saga. David Holmes composed the scores for all three, and Peter Andrews is the cinematography credit on each.

The other directors each own a single film. Lewis Milestone directed and produced Ocean's Eleven (1960), which runs 127 minutes. Gary Ross directed the spin-off Ocean's Eight (2018), which runs 111 minutes. Soderbergh's films run 116 minutes for Ocean's Eleven (2001), 125 for Ocean's Twelve (2004) and 122 for Ocean's Thirteen (2007).

The crew credits follow one steady line through the middle of the saga. The Ocean's Eleven (2001) soundtrack includes "Gritty Shaker" by Holmes alongside licensed songs such as "A Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley. Ocean's Eleven (1960) was scored by Nelson Riddle and shot by William H. Daniels, with title design by Saul Bass. Daniel Pemberton wrote the score for Ocean's Eight (2018), and the album titled Ocean's 8 includes "Hacking the Met" and "The Actual Heist".

The untitled Ocean's Eleven prequel is dated for June 25, 2027 in the US. Variety reported that Bradley Cooper would write and direct it, with Carrie Solomon also credited as a writer and Margot Robbie producing, after Lee Isaac Chung left the project. Those credits are reported rather than announced in full by the studio, and the details sit on the Ocean's Eleven prequel page. The music of each film is covered under the Ocean's Eleven soundtrack.

Twelve of the main 2001 cast returned for both Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007); the only major recast is Danny Ocean, played by Frank Sinatra in 1960 and George Clooney in 2001. The twelve are Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Eddie Jemison, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould and Shaobo Qin.

No studio or trade source states why Julia Roberts is absent from Ocean's Thirteen (2007). She is in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and is billed second in Ocean's Twelve (2004). CBS News reported her pregnancy around the start of Ocean's Twelve, but that report does not address Ocean's Thirteen. Her role is on the Tess Ocean page.

The smaller changes are easy to miss. Shaobo Qin is credited as Yen in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007) and as The Amazing Yen in Ocean's Twelve (2004). Elliott Gould also appears as Reuben in Ocean's Eight (2018), billed fifteenth, which gives that spin-off a thin but real tie to the Soderbergh films. Andy Garcia's Terry Benedict shifts from target to pursuer in Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Garcia is billed eleventh in Ocean's Thirteen (2007).

On the next film, Variety reported Bradley Cooper in talks to star opposite Margot Robbie in the untitled Ocean's Eleven prequel, and Monaco Life reported Wagner Moura, Monica Barbaro and Josh Gad in the cast, with no character names confirmed. TheWrap reported unconfirmed talk of David Leitch directing an Ocean's 14 with George Clooney and Brad Pitt returning, and Warner Bros. had no comment; the full picture is on the Ocean's Eleven prequel page.