Jena Malone as Ellen Foster

Julie Harris as Leonora Nelson

Ted Levine as Bill Hammond

Glynnis O'Connor as Charlotte Nelson Hammond

Debra Monk as Aunt Nadine

Barbara Garrick as Aunt Betsy

Kate Burton as Abigail Montford

Zeljko Ivanek as Educational Psychologist

Lynne Moody as Mrs. Douglas

Bill Nunn as Mr. Douglas

Dick O'Neill as Judge

Kimberly J. Brown as Dora

Allison Jones as Starletta Douglas

Davenia McFadden as

Timothy Olyphant as Roy Hobbs

Amanda Peet as Julia Hobbs

Sean Allan as

Bailee Reid as

Lorena Gale as

Charles W. Gray as

Michael Hogan as

Helen Honeywell as

Don MacKay as

Sheila Moore as

Sheila Paterson as

Brent Stait as

Helen Taylor as

Neil Vipond as