The First Wives Club - Cast

Cast

• Goldie Hawn as Elise Elliot Atchison, a former one-time Oscar-winning actress, now an alcoholic and heavy smoker relegated to B movies due to her 'unprofitable' age. Her husband, Bill, who left her for another woman, is suing for alimony and insisting that all of their joint assets be sold and the profits divided between them.
• Diane Keaton as Annie MacDuggan Paradis, the vehicle for the film's sporadic voice-over; an anxious and slightly neurotic housewife, saddled with self-esteem problems, attempting to save her marriage with estranged husband Aaron – much to her lesbian daughter's dismay.
• Bette Midler as Brenda Morelli Cushman, a wise-cracking Sicilian-Jewish single mother who helped set her husband Morty on his feet financially, before he left her for the much younger Shelly, cheating her out of an equitable settlement.
• Elizabeth Berkley as Phoebe LaVelle, an up-and-coming actress, living with Bill. She presumably tells him that she is twenty-one, but Elise tricks him and reveals that she is sixteen years old and a high school dropout.
• Stockard Channing as Cynthia Swann Griffin, a college friend of the three main protagonists, who commits suicide after her husband, Gil, betrays and eventually divorces her.
• Stephen Collins as Aaron Paradis, Annie's conflicted husband and CEO of an advertising agency, who leaves his wife for their therapist, Leslie Rosen.
• Victor Garber as Bill Atchison, a successful film producer, who rose to fame through Elise's connections and eventually left her in favor of a young starlet.
• Marcia Gay Harden as Dr. Leslie Rosen, Aaron's short-time affair, who is the therapist for both Annie and Aaron. Leslie has been "helping" Annie with her self-esteem problems.
• Eileen Heckart as Catherine MacDuggan, Annie's 'controlling' mother.
• Dan Hedaya as Brenda's ex-husband Morton 'Morty' Cushman, an electronics tycoon, who hides his wealth and takes advantage of having his former wife having signed an out-of-court settlement - just to finance his fiancée's preferences.
• Sarah Jessica Parker as Shelly Stewart, Morty's dim-witted but manipulative fiancée. This is Parker's second film with Midler as her co-star, the first being the 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus.
• Bronson Pinchot as Duarto Felice, Brenda's boss and (according to Annie) "one of the ten worst interior decorators in New York."
• Maggie Smith as Gunilla Garson Goldberg, a wealthy New York society leader who helps the First Wives Club along with their schemes because she was once a first wife, as well as a "second, third and fourth wife", according to Annie.
• Jennifer Dundas as Chris Paradis, Annie's lesbian and feminist daughter, who resents her father for what he is putting her mother through. This is the second film in which Dundas plays Keaton's daughter, having previously done so in Mrs. Soffel.
• Ari Greenberg as Jason Cushman, Brenda's son, who is caught in an emotional battle between his parents.
• Philip Bosco as Uncle Carmine Morelli, Brenda's paternal uncle and part of her family's Sicilian mafia connections.
• Ivana Trump as herself (special guest appearance).
• Kathie Lee Gifford as herself (special guest appearance).
• Ed Koch and Gloria Steinem as party guests (special guest appearances).
• James Naughton as Gil Griffin, Cynthia's ex-husband (special guest appearance).
• Heather Locklear as Gil's new wife (special guest appearance).