Laura Fraser as Florence Nightingale

Michael Pennington as Wen

Andrew Harrison as Palmerston

Barbara Marten as Fanny

Keith Clifford as The Colonel

Roy Hudd as Music Hall barker

Catherine Tyldesley as Parthenope

Ian Bartholomew as Sir Sydney Herbert

Tim Dann as Dying Soldier

Olwen May as Mother Mary Clare

Paul Opacic as Richard Monckton-Milnes

Sean McKenzie as Dr Farr

Lorraine Cheshire as Watson

Tim Beasley as Fitzgerald