Amanda Root as Anne Elliott

Ciarán Hinds as Captain Frederick Wentworth

Susan Fleetwood as Lady Russell

Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Croft

John Woodvine as Admiral Croft

Phoebe Nicholls as Elizabeth Elliot

Samuel West as Mr. Elliot

Sophie Thompson as Mary Musgrave

Judy Cornwell as Mrs. Musgrove

Simon Russell Beale as Charles Musgrove

Felicity Dean as Mrs. Clay

Roger Hammond as Mr. Musgrove

Victoria Hamilton as Henrietta Musgrove

Emma Roberts as Louisa Musgrove

Robert Glenister as Captain Harvile

Richard McCabe as Captain Benwick

Helen Schlesinger as Mrs. Smith

Jane Wood as Nurse Rooke

David Collings as Mr. Shepherd

Darlene Johnson as Lady Dairympie

Cinnamon Faye as Miss Carteret

Isaac Maxwell-Hunt as Henry Hayter

Roger Llewellyn as Sir Henry Willoughby

Sally George as Mrs. Harville

Lonnie James as Jemima

Corin Redgrave as Sir Walter Eliot