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