Michael Ball as Henry Purcell

Simon Callow as Charles II

Rebecca Front as Mary II

Lucy Speed as Nell Gwyn

Letitia Dean as Lady Castlemaine

Nina Young as Frances Purcell

John Shrapnel as Samuel Pepys

Robert Stephens as John Dryden

Terence Rigby as Captain Henry Cooke

Corin Redgrave as William of Orange

John Fortune as Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Guy Henry as James II

James Saxon as Vyner

Brook Williams as Priest