Fabrice Luchini as Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Sandrine Kiberlain as Marie-Thérèse

Manuel Blanc as Gudin

Claire Nebout as Chevalier d'Eon

Michel Serrault as Louis XV

Jacques Weber as Duc de Chaulnes

Michel Piccoli as Prince de Conti

Dominique Besnehard as Louis XVI

Jean-François Balmer as Sartine

Martin Lamotte as Comte de la Blache

Jean-Claude Brialy as Abbot

José Garcia as Figaro

Judith Godrèche as Marie-Antoinette

Jean Yanne as Louis Goezman

Alain Chabat as le courtisan à Versailles

Axelle Laffont as Mariette

Isabelle Carré as Rosine

Guy Marchand as Man at the Parliament

Séverine Ferrer as Lison-Chérubin

Murray Head as Lord Rochford

André Oumansky as Président du Parlement

Jeff Nuttall as Benjamin Franklin

Michel Aumont as Baron de Breteuil

Jay Benedict as L'homme en gris

Évelyne Bouix as Mme Vigée Lebrun

Niels Dubost as Comte Almaviva

François Morel as Paysan au tribunal

Pascal Thomas as Critique de théâtre

Patrice Laffont as Officier des douanes

David Gabison as Doublemain

Maka Kotto as Césaire

Florence Thomassin as Marion Ménard

Patrick Bouchitey as Monsieur Lejay

Pierre Gérard as Comte de Provence

Dominic Gould as Arthur Lee

Richard Durden as Smith

Jean-Claude de Goros as The furious one

Jean-Philippe Daguerre as Critique de théâtre

Pierre Lopez as Young man at the Parliament

Robert Sandrey as Vieil assesseur

Roger Brierley as Printer

Marie Delerm as Marceline

Étienne Draber as Brid'oison

Marc Dudicourt as Bartholo

Jean-Michel Geneste as Theatre tramp

Bruno Lochet as French prison guard

Romain Sellier as English prisoner

Violaine Barret as Theatre woman

Marc Habib as The chamberlain

Éric Wapler as Portefaix Hortales

Pierre Arditi as Narrateur (non crédité)