Secrets & Lies

Synopsis

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

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Cast

Brenda Blethyn

Cynthia Rose Purley

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Hortense Cumberbatch

Timothy Spall

Maurice Purley

Phyllis Logan

Monica Purley

Claire Rushbrook

Roxanne Purley

Lee Ross

Paul

Lesley Manville

The Social Worker

Elizabeth Berrington

Jane

Michele Austin

Dionne

Ron Cook

Stuart

Trevor Laird

Hortense's Brother

Brian Bovell

Hortense's Brother

Emma Amos

Girl with Scar

Clare Perkins

Hortense's Sister in Law

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Elias Perkins McCook

Hortense's Nephew

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Jane Mitchell

Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)

Janice Acquah

Junior Optician

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Keylee Jade Flanders

Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)

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Hannah Davis

First Bride

Terence Harvey

First Bride's Father

Crew

Art

• Alison Chitty Production Design
• Eve Stewart Art Direction
• Hilly Benjamin Assistant Art Director
• Nick Rose Property Master
• Chris Allies Title Designer
• Nick Orlande Construction Manager

Camera

• Dick Pope Director of Photography
• Lucy Bristow Focus Puller
• Simon Mein Still Photographer

Costume & Make-Up

• Maria Price Costume Design
• Allison Wyldeck Costume Supervisor
• Jacki Thomas Wardrobe Assistant
• Christine Blundell Makeup Artist
• Kirstin Chalmers Assistant Hairstylist
• Kirstin Chalmers Assistant Makeup Artist

Crew

• Richard Blackmore Generator Operator

Directing

• Mike Leigh Director
• Zerlina Hughes Third Assistant Director
• Jennie Osborn First Assistant Director
• Josh Robertson Second Assistant Director
• Chris Rose First Assistant Director
• Heather Storr Script Supervisor
• Paula Spinks Assistant Director

Editing

• Jon Gregory Editor
• Kate Mackenzie First Assistant Editor
• Ian Seymour First Assistant Editor

Lighting

• Alan Coster Electrician
• Marco di Giulio Electrician
• Martin Duncan Gaffer

Production

• Simon Channing Williams Producer
• Susie Parriss Casting
• Paddy Stern Casting
• Georgina Lowe Production Supervisor
• Mark Mostyn Location Manager
• Phillip Kenny Production Executive
• Will Tyler Production Accountant
• Sarah Trowse Assistant Accountant
• Stephanie Faugier Production Coordinator

Sound

• Andrew Dickson Original Music Composer
• George Richards Sound Recordist
• Orin Beaton Boom Operator
• Mick Boggis Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Loveday Harding Boom Operator
• Derek Holding ADR Editor
• Derek Lomas Dialogue Editor
• Peter Maxwell Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• George Richards Sound Recordist
• Ted Swanscott ADR Mixer
• Ted Swanscott Foley Mixer
• William Trent Foley Editor

Writing

• Mike Leigh Writer

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