Cast
- Billy Crudup as Ned Kynaston
- Claire Danes as Maria / Margaret Hughes
- Tom Wilkinson as Thomas Betterton
- Rupert Everett as King Charles II
- Zoe Tapper as Nell Gwynn
- Richard Griffiths as Sir Charles Sedley
- Hugh Bonneville as Samuel Pepys
- Ben Chaplin as George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
- Edward Fox as Sir Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
- Alice Eve as Miss Frayne
- Stephen Marcus as Thomas Cockerell
- Tom Hollander as Sir Peter Lely
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