Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies
Release: 1996-05-24
·Runtime: 142m
·★ 7.6
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
France
Production Companies
CiBy 2000
Channel Four Films
Thin Man Films
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Brenda Blethyn
as Cynthia Rose Purley
Michele Austin
as Dionne
Ron Cook
as Stuart
Stephen Churchett
as Man in Suit
Claire Rushbrook
as Roxanne Purley
David Neilson
as Man in Suit
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
as Hortense Cumberbatch
Lesley Manville
as The Social Worker
Terence Harvey
as First Bride's Father
Grant Masters
as Best Man
Lucy Sheen
as Nurse
Lee Ross
as Paul
Trevor Laird
as Hortense's Brother
Emma Amos
as Girl with Scar
Frances Ruffelle
as Young Mother
Peter Wight
as Father in Family Group
Liz Smith
as Woman with Cat
Linda Beckett
as Pin Up Housewife
Elizabeth Berrington
as Jane
Brian Bovell
as Hortense's Brother
Richard Syms
as Vicar
Phil Davis
as Man in Suit
Wendy Nottingham
as Glum Woman
Mia Soteriou
as Fiancee
Timothy Spall
as Maurice Purley
Paul Trussell
as Grinning Husband
Gary McDonald
as Boxer
Janice Acquah
as Junior Optician
Jonny Coyne
as Fiance
Alison Steadman
as Woman with Dog
Angela Curran
as Little Boy's Mother
Ruth Sheen
as Laughing Woman
Phyllis Logan
as Monica Purley
Clare Perkins
as Hortense's Sister in Law
Nitin Ganatra
as Potential Suitor
Anthony O'Donnell
as Uneasy Man
