who sees the crimes of those whom he touches Davis Duffield as 20-year-old David Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price/Mr. Glass, a comic book theorist, and deranged terrorist with brittle bone disease Johnny Hiram Jamison as 13-year-old Elijah Robin Wright as Audrey Dunn, David's wife and a physical therapist Laura Regan as 20-year-old Audrey Spencer Treat Clark as Joseph Dunn, David's son who believes his father is a superhero Charlayne Woodard as Mrs. Price, Elijah's mother Eamonn Walker as Dr. Mathison Leslie Stefanson as Kelly Michaelia Carroll as Babysitter Whitney Sugarman as Physical Therapist Bostin Christopher as Comic Book Clerk Elizabeth Lawrence as School Nurse Chance Kelly as Orange Suit Man Michael Kelly as Dr. Dubin Joey Hazinsky as Five-Year-Old Boy Dianne Cotten Murphy as Woman Walking By Writer, director, and producer M. Night Shyamalan makes an appearance as Stadium Drug Dealer. He reprises this role in the 2016 and 2019 films Split, and Glass, which both credit him as surveillance security guard Jai who in Glass jokingly says he used to do shady stuff in the stadium back in his youth. In October 2018, Shyamalan confirmed a fan theory that "Five-Year-Old Boy" and "Woman Walking By", who bump into David Dunn outside a stadium, are younger versions of Kevin Wendell Crumb and Penelope Crumb from Split, confirmed in the 2019 film Glass. Production When M. Night Shyamalan conceived the idea for Unbreakable, the outline had a comic book's traditional three-part structure (the superhero's "birth", his struggles against general evil-doers, and the hero's ultimate battle against the "archenemy"). Finding the birth section most interesting, he decided to write Unbreakable as an origin story. During the filming of The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan had already approached Bruce Willis for the lead role of David Dunn. With Willis and Samuel L. Jackson specifically in mind for the two leading characters, Shyamalan began to write Unbreakable as a spec script during post-production on The Sixth Sense. Jackson recalled meeting Willis in a casino in Casablanca while he was on vacation prior to Unbreakables production; Willis told Jackson that he had just finished filming for Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense and told Jackson about the new script that was written for both of them. With the financial and critical success of The Sixth Sense in August 1999, Shyamalan gave Walt Disney Studios a first-look deal for Unbreakable. In return, Disney purchased Shyamalan's screenplay at a "spec