Carey Mulligan as Maud Watts

Helena Bonham Carter as Edith Ellyn

Brendan Gleeson as Arthur Steed

Anne-Marie Duff as Violet Miller

Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst

Ben Whishaw as Sonny Watts

Romola Garai as Alice Haughton

Samuel West as Benedict Haughton

Geoff Bell as Norman Taylor

Natalie Press as Emily Davison

Adrian Schiller as David Lloyd George

Amanda Lawrence as Miss Withers

Adam Michael Dodd as George Watts

Grace Stottor as Maggie Miller

Lorraine Stanley as Mrs Coleman

Morgan Watkins as Detective Malcolm Walsop

Finbar Lynch as Hugh Ellyn

Nick Hendrix as Government Minister

Shelley Longworth as Miss Samson

Sarah Finigan as Mrs Garston

Drew Edwards as Male Laundry Worker

Adam Nagaitis as Mr Cummins

Lee Nicholas Harris as Police Constable

Joyce Henderson as Female Prison Guard

Susie Baxter as Landlady

Lisa Dillon as Mrs Drayton

Matt Blair as Mr. Drayton

Jo Neary as Woman Prisoner

Col Needham as Committee Member

John Cummins as Epsom Groundsman

Kevin Hudson as The Muffin Man (uncredited)