Kenneth Branagh
— D.H. Lawrence
Helen Mirren
— Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
Alison Steadman
— Kate
Philip Martin Brown
— David
Felicity Montagu
— Jessie Chambers
Fiona Victory
— Alice Dax
Norman Rodway
— William Hopkin
Alison King
— Sallie Hopkin
Lynn Farleigh
— Lydia Lawrence
Malcolm Storry
— Arthur Lawrence
Robin Paul Bassford
— Young Lawrence