Siân Phillips

as Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam

as Mr. Henderson

as Mrs. Archer

as WRNS Officer (uncredited)

as Cassiopeia

as Mrs. Laura Upward

as Lady Annabel Butler

as Charal

as Enid Meadows

as Madame de Volanges

as Adrian

as Margaret Corey

as Gwendolen

as Livia

as Maureen

as Grandmother

as Ann Smiley

as Adele Goffe

as Beattie Elletson

as Hayden

as Mrs. Henska

as Grandma Dix

as Red Queen

as Agnes Gillian

as Annabella Rock

as Hermione

as Ursula Mossbank

as Frau Sesemann

as Narrator

as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard

as Ella

as Sarah Walker

as Lady Ripon

as Grandmother / narrator (voice)

as Mrs. Driver

as Mrs. Pugh

as Vera Dulciman

as Anna Maria Dalí

as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

as Mathilda Gillespie

as Lady Lavery

as Anna Voinitseva

as Self

as Mrs. Henska

as Lady Pamela More

as Daisy Barnett

as Meg Lewis

as Duchess of Windsor

as Marie Strickland

as Narrator

as Maria

as Katerina Ivánovna

as Clementine Churchill

as Mam

as Erica

as Evil Baroness

as Queen Boudicca

as Beth Morgan

as May Bartram

as Sally Stirling

as Nain Griffiths

as Nain Griffiths

as Patient

as Self

as Emmeline Pankhurst

as Narrator

as Self

as A Girl

as Nain Griffiths

as Voice

as Mrs. Patrick Campbell

as Self

as Voice

as Calypso

as Mrs. Blessington

as Narrator

as Narrator/Older Lady Emily Lennox

as Eleanor

as Madame Neilsen

as Self

as self

as Self - Ru (archive footage)

as Mother Aloysius

as Janet Achurch

as Isobel Makepeace

as Lady Scott

as May

as Anna

as Clare Wedderburn

as Self

as Narrator

as Mrs Utah Watkins / Polly Garter / Mrs Beyon

as Narrator

as Jo

as Maggie

as Hesione Hushabye

as Mersyankh (voice)

as Mrs Alicia Moore

as Janet Achurch

as Narrator

as Self - Narrator

as Mathilda

as Matilda Crawley

as Self - Nominee