Imelda Staunton as Sally Durant Plummer

Peter Forbes as Buddy Plummer

Janie Dee as Phyllis Rogers Stone

Philip Quast as Benjamin Stone

Tracie Bennett as Carlotta Campion

Gary Raymond as Dimitri Weismann

Jordan Shaw as Kevin

Fred Haig as Young Buddy

Josephine Barstow as Heidi Schiller

Bruce Graham as Roscoe

Dawn Hope as Stella Deems

Adrian Grove as Sam Deems

Di Botcher as Hattie Walker

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Solange LaFitte

Zizi Strallen as Young Phyllis

Alex Young as Young Sally

Adam Rhys-Charles as Young Ben

Billy Boyle as Theodore Whitman

Norma Atallah as Emily Whitman

Liz Izen as Deedee West

Julie Armstrong as Christine Donovan

Gemma Page as Sandra Crane

Alison Langer as Young Heidi

Aimee Hodnett as Young Hattie

Sarah-Marie Maxwell as Young Solange

Kate Parr as Young Sandra

Christine Tucker as Young Deedee

Leisha Mollyneaux as Young Stella

Emily Langham as Young Carlotta

Anouska Eaton as Young Emily

Barnaby Thompson as Young Theodore

Emily Goodenough as Young Christine

Edwin Ray as Cameraman

Ian McLarnon as TV Interviewer

Liz Ewing as Weismann's PA

Jeremy Batt as Ensemble

Michael Vinsen as Ensemble