Secrets & Lies
Drama
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.
1996-05-24
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Cast
Director
Mike Leigh
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
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
Sheila Kelley as Fertile Mother
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