Movie
Secrets & Lies
Released: May 24, 1996 (1996)
Runtime: 142 minutes
Genres: Drama
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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Brenda Blethyn as Cynthia Rose Purley
Age at release: 50
- Ron Cook as Stuart
Age at release: 47
- Phyllis Logan as Monica Purley
Age at release: 40
- Lesley Manville as The Social Worker
Age at release: 40
- Timothy Spall as Maurice Purley
Age at release: 39
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense Cumberbatch
Age at release: 29
- Lee Ross as Paul
Age at release: 25
- Elizabeth Berrington as Jane
Age at release: 25
- Claire Rushbrook as Roxanne Purley
Age at release: 24
- Michele Austin as Dionne
Age at release: Unknown
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- Jean Ainslie as Grandmother
Age at release: 75
- Richard Syms as Vicar
Age at release: 53
- Terence Harvey as First Bride's Father
Age at release: 51
- Annie Hayes as Mother in Family Group
Age at release: 50
- Su Elliot as Raunchy Woman
Age at release: 45
- Trevor Laird as Hortense's Brother
Age at release: 38
- Brian Bovell as Hortense's Brother
Age at release: 36
- Emma Amos as Girl with Scar
Age at release: 31
- Grant Masters as Best Man
Age at release: 31
- Clare Perkins as Hortense's Sister in Law
Age at release: 30
- Frances Ruffelle as Young Mother
Age at release: 30
- Nitin Ganatra as Potential Suitor
Age at release: 28
- Elias Perkins McCook as Hortense's Nephew
Age at release: Unknown
- Jane Mitchell as Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
Age at release: Unknown
- Janice Acquah as Junior Optician
Age at release: Unknown
- Keylee Jade Flanders as Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)
Age at release: Unknown
- Kate O'Malley as Second Bride
Age at release: Unknown
- Joe Tucker as Groom
Age at release: Unknown
- Lucy Sheen as Nurse
Age at release: Unknown
- Metin Marlow as Conjuror
Age at release: Unknown