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  Susanna White

  regizor

• 
  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Christopher Tietjens
• 
  Rebecca Hall

  Sylvia Tietjens
• 
  Roger Allam

  General Campion
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  Rupert Everett

  Mark Tietjens
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  Miranda Richardson

  Mrs. Wannop
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  Rufus Sewell

  pastorul Duchemin
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  Janet McTeer

   Mrs. Satterthwaite (4 episodes, 2012)

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  Tilly Blackwood

   Second Teacher (2 episodes, 2012)
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  Christopher Bowen

   Reverend - Effie's Husband (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Lucy Briers

   Mrs. Ferguson (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Jonathan Coy

   Bertram (3 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Ned Dennehy

  Father Consett
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  Anne-Marie Duff

  Edith Duchemin
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  Sebastian Armesto

   Ruggles (2 episodes, 2012)

• 
  Stephen Graham

  Vincent Macmaster
• 
  Leslie de Gruyter

  Lord Beichen
• 
  Clare Higgins

   Lady Claudine (4 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Alan Howard

  Tietjens Senior
• 
  Denis Lawson

  Sir Reginald
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  Sylvestra Le Touzel

   Marchant (3 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Elliot Levey

  Colonel Levin
• 
  Anna Maguire

   Latin Teacher (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Tim McMullan

   Stephen Waterhouse (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Ronald Pickup

  General Haggard
• 
  Malcolm Sinclair

  Sandbach
• 
  Sasha Waddell

   Glorvina (5 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Emma Dewhurst

   First Teacher (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Patrick Kennedy

   McKechnie (3 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Lucinda Raikes

   Hullo Central - Evie (3 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Siobhan Hewlett

   Michaelangelo Woman (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Anna Skellern

   Bobbie Pelham (3 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Candida Benson

   Effie (3 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Jack Huston

  Gerald Drake
• 
  Jurgen Delnaet

   Critic at Macmaster's Flat (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Jamie Parker

   Brownlie (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Lyne Renee

   Marie-Léonie (2 episodes, 2012)
• 
  Tom Mison

  Potty Perowne
• 
  Adelaide Clemens

  Valentine Wannop
• 
  Freddie Fox

  Edward Wannop
• 
  Pierre Van Heddegem

   Capitaine Thurston (2 episodes, 2012)
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  Misha Handley

   Michael - 4 years old (2 episodes, 2012)
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  Rudi Goodman

   Michael - 8 years old (2 episodes, 2012)