''Unspeakable'' is an eight-episode Canadian television drama series created and written by Robert C. Cooper, which aired on
CBC Television
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and SundanceTV in the 2018–19 television season. Based on the books ''Bad Blood'' by Vic Parsons and ''The Gift of Death'' by Andre Picard, the series chronicles the emergence of
HIV/AIDS
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and
Hepatitis C
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Sarah Wayne Callies
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as Margaret Sanders
* Michael Shanks as Will Sanders
*Ricardo Ortiz as Ryan Sanders
** Spencer Drever as Ryan Sanders (teen)
Landry family:
* Shawn Doyle as Ben Landry
* Camille Sullivan as Alice Landry
* Levi Meaden as Peter Thomas Landry
*Mackenzie Cardwell as Emma Landry
** Trinity Likins as Emma Landry (child)
Krepke family:
* Aaron Douglas as Jim Krepke
*Karyn Mott as Lisa Krepke
Hartley family:
* David Lewis as Lawrence Hartley
*Katelyn Peterson as Jessica Hartley
Others
* Brian Markinson as Roger Perrault
* Randy Charach as Commons chair
*
Paloma Kwiatkowski
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as Elizabeth Darby Stephens
* Diana Bang as Ruby Kim
*Ryan Grantham as Andy Girard
* Laura Bertram as Kelly Girard