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