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