Alex Kingston

as Helen Maynard

Dean Andrews

as Eddie Maynard

Denis Lawson

as Robert Bowen

Elliot Cowan

as Mark Ashburn

Jodie Whittaker

as Ruth Bowen

Shelley Conn

as Nisha Parekh

Tessa Peake-Jones

as Evelyn Bowen

Jamie Thomas King

as Paul Bowen

Anne Reid

as Ruth Bowen (2010)