Secrets & Lies

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia. At first Cynthia denies the claim, but she eventually admits to birthing Hortense as a teenager, and the two begin to bond. However, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a family barbecue, Cynthia's already tense relationship with her family becomes even more complicated.

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

Elias Perkins McCook

Hortense's Nephew

Jane Mitchell

Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)

Janice Acquah

Junior Optician

Keylee Jade Flanders

Girl in Opticians (as Keeley Flanders)