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.
7.6(743) 1996-05-24 142 minDrama
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.
ProducerSimon Channing Williams
Original Music ComposerAndrew Dickson
WriterMike Leigh
DirectorMike Leigh
Cast & characters
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
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Elias Perkins McCook
as Hortense's Nephew
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Jane Mitchell
as Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
Janice Acquah
as Junior Optician
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Keylee Jade Flanders
as Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)
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Hannah Davis
as First Bride
Terence Harvey
as First Bride's Father
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Kate O'Malley
as Second Bride
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Joe Tucker
as Groom
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Richard Syms
as Vicar
Grant Masters
as Best Man
