Secrets & Lies
Roxanne drives her mother crazy. Maurice never speaks to his niece. Cynthia has a shock for her family. Monica can't talk to her husband. Hortense has never met her mother.
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.
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Cast
Alison Steadman
Woman with Dog
Wendy Nottingham
Glum Woman
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
Paul Trussell
Grinning Husband
Gary McDonald
Boxer
Stephen Churchett
Man in Suit
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
Ron Cook
Stuart
Janice Acquah
Junior Optician
Grant Masters
Best Man
Angela Curran
Little Boy's Mother
Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Lee Ross
Paul
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Anthony O'Donnell
Uneasy Man
Terence Harvey
First Bride's Father
Frances Ruffelle
Young Mother
Nitin Ganatra
Potential Suitor
David Neilson
Man in Suit
Lucy Sheen
Nurse
Jonny Coyne
Fiance
Liz Smith
Woman with Cat
Linda Beckett
Pin Up Housewife
Ruth Sheen
Laughing Woman
Mia Soteriou
Fiancee
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
Emma Amos
Girl with Scar
Sheila Kelley
Fertile Mother
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Michele Austin
Dionne
Peter Wight
Father in Family Group
Phil Davis
Man in Suit
Clare Perkins
Hortense's Sister in Law