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Secrets & Lies
1996, May 24
2h 22m
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Directed by
Mike Leigh
Written by
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Liz Smith
Woman with Cat
Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Alison Steadman
Woman with Dog
Terence Harvey
First Bride's Father
Phil Davis
Man in Suit
Peter Wight
Father in Family Group
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
Nitin Ganatra
Potential Suitor
Ron Cook
Stuart
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
Lee Ross
Paul
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Richard Syms
Vicar
Mia Soteriou
Fiancee
Emma Amos
Girl with Scar
Wendy Nottingham
Glum Woman
Gary McDonald
Boxer
Michele Austin
Dionne
Ruth Sheen
Laughing Woman
Clare Perkins
Hortense's Sister in Law
Lucy Sheen
Nurse
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
Joe Tucker
Groom
Linda Beckett
Pin Up Housewife
Angela Curran
Little Boy's Mother
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
David Neilson
Man in Suit
Anthony O'Donnell
Uneasy Man
Stephen Churchett
Man in Suit
Grant Masters
Best Man
Jonny Coyne
Fiance
Paul Trussell
Grinning Husband
Janice Acquah
Junior Optician
Frances Ruffelle
Young Mother
Elias Perkins McCook
Hortense's Nephew
Jane Mitchell
Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
Keylee Jade Flanders
Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)
Kate O'Malley
Second Bride
Annie Hayes
Mother in Family Group
Jean Ainslie
Grandmother
Metin Marlow
Conjuror
Su Elliot
Raunchy Woman
Amanda Crossley
Raunchy Woman
Di Sherlock
Raunchy Woman
Peter Waddington
Man in Suit
Peter Stockbridge
Man in Suit
Rachel Lewis
Graduate
Denise Orita
Uneasy Woman
Margery Withers
Elderly Lady
Gordon Winter
Laughing Man
Theresa Watson
Daughter
Sheila Kelley
Fertile Mother
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