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