Diego Luna as Tenoch Iturbide

Gael García Bernal as Julio Zapata

Maribel Verdú as Luisa Cortés

Daniel Giménez Cacho as Narrator (voice)

Diana Bracho as Silvia Allende de Iturbide

Verónica Langer as María Eugenia Calles de Huerta

María Aura as Cecilia Huerta

Emilio Echevarría as Miguel Iturbide

Marta Aura as Enriqueta 'Queta' Allende

Silverio Palacios as Jesús 'Chuy' Carranza

Ana López Mercado as Ana Morelos

Andrés Almeida as Diego 'Saba' Madero

Nathan Grinberg as Manuel Huerta

Giselle Audirac as Nicole Bazaine

Arturo Ríos as Esteban Morelos

Juan Carlos Remolina as Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca

Liboria Rodríguez as Leodegaria 'Leo' Victoria

Mayra Sérbulo as Mabel Juárez de Carranza

Andrea López as Lucero Carranza

Amaury Sérbulo as Christian Carranza

Jorge Vergara as President (uncredited)