Vanessa Redgrave as Penelope Keeling

Maximilian Schell as Lawrence Sterne

Charles Edwards as Noel Keeling

Prunella Scales as Dolly Keeling

Victoria Smurfit as Olivia Keeling

Victoria Hamilton as Nancy Chamberlaine

Sebastian Koch as Cosmo König

Stephanie Stumph as Antonia König

Richard Hope as George Chamberlaine

Lucas Gregorowicz as Danus Muirfield

Maisie Dimbleby as Young Penelope

Toby Fisher as Ambrose Keeling

Alastair Mackenzie as Richard

Cherith Mellor as Mrs. Plackett

Hugh Sachs as Roy Brookner

Imogen Bain as Sister Rogers

Rebecca Blake as Angie

Amanda Boxer as Aunt Ethel Stern

Max Cane as Ernie Penberthy

Tim Faraday as Jim Slade

Patrick Godfrey as Mr. Enderby

Nickolas Grace as Mundy

Rosalind Knight as Mrs. Croftway

Neil May as Pub Customer

Penelope McGhie as Woman in Street

Christopher Ravenscroft as Colonel Mellaby