Jean Cocteau as The Poet

Edouard Dermithe as Cégeste

Henri Crémieux as The Professor

François Périer as Heurtebise

Claudine Auger as Minerve

Françoise Arnoul as Self (uncredited)

Lucia Bosè as Orphée's Friend

Charles Aznavour as The Curious Man

Brigitte Bardot as Self (uncredited)

Jean Marais as Oedipe

Daniel Gélin as The Intern (uncredited)

Françoise Christophe as The Nurse (uncredited)

Nicole Courcel as The Young Mother (uncredited)

Daniel Moosmann as 2nd Man-Horse (uncredited)

Yul Brynner as Court Usher (uncredited)

Pablo Picasso as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Michael Goodliffe as English Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Dargelos, the schoolboy

Alice Sapritch as Gypsy (uncredited)

Roger Vadim as Self (uncredited)

Françoise Sagan as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Annette Stroyberg as A friend of Orphée (uncredited)

Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte as Gypsy (uncredited)

María Casares as The Princess