Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde

Jude Law as Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Speranza Wilde

Jennifer Ehle as Constance Lloyd Wilde

Gemma Jones as Lady Queensberry

Judy Parfitt as Lady Mount-Temple

Michael Sheen as Robbie Ross

Zoë Wanamaker as Ada Leverson 'Sphinx'

Tom Wilkinson as Marquess of Queensberry

Ioan Gruffudd as John Gray

Orlando Bloom as Rent Boy

James D'Arcy as First Friend

Andrew Havill as Algernon

Jason Morell as Ernest Dowson

Jamie Lee as Second Friend

Matthew Mills as Lionel Johnson

Peter Barkworth as Charles Gill

Adam Garcia as Jones

Joseph May as First Miner

Orlando Wells as Undergraduate

Robert Lang as C.O. Humphreys

David Westhead as Edward Carson

Laurence Owen as Vyvyan Wilde

Benedict Sandiford as Alfred Wood

Mark Letheren as Charles Parker

Robin Kermode as George Alexander

Avril Elgar as Lady Bracknell

Jean Ainslie as Miss Prism

Bridget Hodson as Gwendolen

Judi Maynard as Mrs. Allonby

Hugh Munro as Chasuble

Michael Simkins as Lord Illingworth

Albert Welling as Arthur

Philip Locke as Judge

Bob Sessions as Mine Owner

James Vaughan as Hotel Manager

Richard Cubison as Head Waiter

John Bleasdale as Warder

Peter Forbes as Detective

Peter Harding as Doorman at the Cadogan

Edward Laurie as Cabman

Geoffrey Leesley as Policeman

Colin MacLachlan as Prison Officer

Arthur Whybrow as Doorkeeper

Hywel Simons as Reporter