Timothy Spall as Albert Pierrepoint

Juliet Stevenson as Annie Pierrepoint

Mary Stockley as Ruth Ellis

Lizzie Hopley as Dorothea Waddingham

Joyia Fitch as Elizabeth Volkenrath

Sheyla Shehovich as Irma Grese

Simon Armstrong as Minister

Ann Bell as Violet Van Der Elst

Tobias Menzies as Lieutenant Llewelyn

Eddie Marsan as James 'Tish' Corbitt

Nicholas Blane as Governor of Strangeways

Clive Brunt as Warder at Strangeways

Cavan Clerkin as George Cooper

James Corden as Kirky

Claire Keelan as Jessie Kelly

Christopher Fulford as Sykes

Bernard Kay as Uncle Tom

Maggie Ollerenshaw as Mary Pierrepoint

Tim Woodward as Governor of Holloway

Clive Francis as Field Marshall Montgomery

Neil Fitzmaurice as Cliff the Scouser

Keiran Flynn as Neville

Frances Shergold as Alice

Rodney Litchfield as Sellers

Ben McKay as Timothy Evans

Jack Lord as Jack Ellis

Mary Jo Randle as Mrs Corbett

Kate Rutter as Eileen

Robin Soans as Governor Paton-Walsh

Marie Critchley as Woman in Pub

Paul Ready as Anthony David Farrow