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