Kathy Bates (Evelyn Couch), Jessica Tandy (Ninny Threadgoode), Mary-Louise Parker (Ruth Jamison), Mary Stuart Masterson (Idgie Threadgoode), Cicely Tyson (Sipsey), Stan Shaw (Big George), Chris O'Donnell (Buddy Threadgoode) more..., Gailard Sartain (Ed Couch), Timothy Scott (Smokey Lonesome), Gary Basaraba (Grady Kilgore), Lois Smith (Mama Threadgoode), Jo Harvey Allen (Woman's Awareness Teacher), Fannie Flagg (Teacher), Suzi Bass (Nurse), Tom Even (Judge), Afton Smith (Leona Threadgoode), Haynes Brooke (Older Julian Threadgoode), Wallace Merck (KKK Man), Richard Riehle (Reverend Scroggins), Constance Shulman (Missy), Nick Searcy (Frank Bennett), Macon McCalman (Prosecutor Percy), Raynor Scheine (Sheriff Curtis Smoote), Grace Zabriskie (Eva Bates), Reid Binion (Young Julian Threadgoode), Danny Nelson (Papa Threadgoode), Nancy Moore Atchison (Little Idgie Threadgoode), Ginny Parker (Ruth's Mother), Tres Holton (Boy at Supermarket), Ron McCall (Ocie), David Dwyer (Hooded Man), Lashondra Phillips (Young Naughty Bird), Kathy Larson (Beetle Girl #1), Missy Wolff (Beetle Girl #2), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Janeen), Grayson Fricke (Buddy Threadgoode Jr.), Enjolik Oree (Older Naughty Bird), Genevieve Fisher (Peggy Hadley), Bob Hannah (Defense Attorney), Ted Manson (Bailiff) and others.

Fannie Flagg (Novel), Carol Sobieski (Screenplay), Fannie Flagg (Screenplay), Elizabeth McBride (Costume Design), Barbara Ling (Production Design), Thomas Newman (Original Music Composer), Debra Neil-Fisher (Editor) more..., Geoffrey Simpson (Director of Photography), David Rubin (Casting Director), Barbara Ling (Associate Producer), Bill Bernstein (Music Editor), Fern Buchner (Makeup Artist), Larry Fulton (Art Direction), Debra Schutt (Set Decoration), Jon Avnet (Producer), Jordan Kerner (Producer), Ric Rondell (Co-Producer), Deborah Love (Associate Producer), Anne Marie Gillen (Executive Producer), Norman Lear (Executive Producer), Kerrie Cullen (Stunt Coordinator), Lisa Lindstrom (Co-Producer), Tom Taylor (Executive Producer), Martin Huberty (Co-Producer), Andrew Meyer (Executive Producer), Alan Robert Murray (Supervising Sound Editor), Walter Newman (Supervising Sound Editor), Cydney Cornell (Hairstylist), Kathy Nelson (Music Supervisor), Mary H. Ellis (Sound Mixer), Arthur Baker (Music Supervisor), Bruce Paul Barbour (Stunts), Laura Dash (Stunts), Dick Hancock (Stunts), Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw (Stunts), Joy Hooper (Stunts), Jeff Rafner (Second Assistant Director), Deborah Love (First Assistant Director), Colleen Callaghan (Key Hair Stylist), Morris Flam (Gaffer),