Cast
- Keira Knightley as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
- Ralph Fiennes as William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
- Hayley Atwell as Lady Elizabeth 'Bess' Foster
- Charlotte Rampling as Countess Spencer, wife to Earl Spencer
- Dominic Cooper as Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
- Max Bennett as Lord Walter
- Aidan McArdle as Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Simon McBurney as Charles James Fox
- Sebastian Applewhite as Augustus Clifford
- Calvin Dean as Devonshire House Servant;
- Emily Jewell as Nanny;
- Richard McCabe as Sir James Hare;
- Bruce Mackinnon as actor playing Sir Peter Teazle in The School for Scandal;
- Alistair Petrie as Heaton;
- Georgia King as actress playing Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal;
- Camilla Arfwedson as Lady Charlotte
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