Willem Dafoe as Tom Eliot

Miranda Richardson as Vivienne Haigh-Wood

Rosemary Harris as Rose Haigh-Wood

Tim Dutton as Maurice Haigh-Wood

Nickolas Grace as Bertrand Russell

Geoffrey Bayldon as Harwent

Clare Holman as Louise Purdon

Philip Locke as Charles Haigh-Wood

Joanna McCallum as Virginia Woolf

Joseph O'Conor as Bishop of Oxford

John Savident as Sir Frederick Lamb

Michael Attwell as W.I. Janes

Sharon Bower as Secretary

Linda Spurrier as Edith Sitwell

Roberta Taylor as Ottoline Morrell

Christopher Baines as Verger

Anna Chancellor as Woman

John Clegg as Second Man

James Greene as Dr. Cyriax

Lou Hirsch as Captain Todd

Edward Holmes as Telegraph Boy

Simon McBurney as Dr. Reginald Miller

William Osborne as Curate

Simon Robson as First Man

Hugh Simon as Concierge

Derek Smee as Mr. Davis

Peter Stockbridge as Porter

Judy Sweeney as Nurse

Giles Taylor as Young Man