Keira Knightley as Sally Alexander

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada

Jessie Buckley as Jo Robinson

Keeley Hawes as Julia Morley

Phyllis Logan as Evelyn Alexander

Lesley Manville as Dolores Hope

Rhys Ifans as Eric Morley

Greg Kinnear as Bob Hope

John Heffernan as Gareth

Suki Waterhouse as Sandra Anne Wolsfeld - Miss USA

Ruby Bentall as Sarah

Alexa Davies as Sue

Lily Newmark as Jane

Loreece Harrison as Pearl Janssen - Miss Africa South

Clara Rosager as Maj Christel Johansson - Miss Sweden

Emma Corrin as Jillian Jessup - Miss South Africa

Daniel Tiplady as Archie

Kajsa Mohammar as Eva Rueber-Staier

Stephen Boxer as Professor Davidson

Justin Salinger as Bearded Marxist Professor

Maya Kelly as Abi

Jo Herbert as Sheila

Ed Eales White as Journalist 1

Jonathan Rhodes as Journalist 2

Eileen O'Higgins as Joan Billings

Laurel Lefkow as Bob's Secretary

Amanda Lawrence as Miss Gilboy

Samuel Blenkin as Lawrence

Nicholas Nunn as Jeremy

Robert Irons as Newsreader

Jojo Macari as Dave

Luke Thompson as Peter Hain

Miles Jupp as Clive

Polly Kemp as Mrs Day

Brig Bennett as Mrs McKenzie

Katy Carmichael as Margaret

Sam Alexander as Reporter

Emma D'Arcy as Hazel

Clarence Smith as Prime Minister Gairy

Thomas Smart as Ambassador of Indonesia

Charlotte Spencer as Marjorie Jones

Rupert Vansittart as Lord Bly

John Sackville as Robin Day

Lily Travers as Anna - Air Hostess

Isis Hainsworth as Jenny

Mary Higgins as Catherine

Victor Gardener as Head of Security

Nicholas Murchie as BBC Broadcaster

Edmund Digby-Jones as Floor Manager Neville

Charlie Anson as Michael Aspel

Ria Zmitrowicz as Mair

Jennifer Hosten as Self

Sally Alexander as Self

Jo Robinson as Self

Pearl Janssen as Self

Eric Morley as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kemal Shah as Mecca Man