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
Gary McDonald
Boxer
Angela Curran
Little Boy's Mother
Wendy Nottingham
Glum Woman
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
Lucy Sheen
Nurse
Jonny Coyne
Fiance
Alison Steadman
Woman with Dog
Linda Beckett
Pin Up Housewife
Phil Davis
Man in Suit
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
Liz Smith
Woman with Cat
Lee Ross
Paul
Sheila Kelley
Fertile Mother
Anthony O'Donnell
Uneasy Man
Janice Acquah
Junior Optician
David Neilson
Man in Suit
Ruth Sheen
Laughing Woman
Mia Soteriou
Fiancee
Paul Trussell
Grinning Husband
Stephen Churchett
Man in Suit
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Michele Austin
Dionne
Ron Cook
Stuart
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Terence Harvey
First Bride's Father
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
Emma Amos
Girl with Scar
Nitin Ganatra
Potential Suitor
Peter Wight
Father in Family Group
Clare Perkins
Hortense's Sister in Law
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Grant Masters
Best Man
Frances Ruffelle
Young Mother