Ian McKellen as King Lear

Romola Garai as Cordelia

Monica Dolan as Regan

Sylvester McCoy as The Fool

Philip Winchester as Edmund

Peter Hinton as Duke of Burgundy

Jonathan Hyde as Earl of Kent

Frances Barber as Goneril

William Gaunt as Earl of Gloucester

Julian Harries as Duke of Albany

Ben Meyjes as Edgar

Guy Williams as Duke of Cornwall

John Heffernan as Oswald