| Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake |
| Philip Davis | Stan |
| Peter Wight | Det. Inspector Webster |
| Adrian Scarborough | Frank |
| Heather Craney | Joyce |
| Daniel Mays | Sid |
| Alex Kelly | Ethel |
| Sally Hawkins | Susan |
| Eddie Marsan | Reg |
| Ruth Sheen | Lily |
| Helen Coker | WPC Best |
| Martin Savage | Det. Seargent Vickers |
| Sinead Matthews | Very Young Woman |
| Allan Corduner | Psychiatrist |
| Lesley Sharp | Jessie Barnes |
| Jim Broadbent | Judge |
| Fenella Woolgar | Susan's Confidante |
| Lesley Manville | Mrs. Wells |
| Sandra Voe | Vera's Mother |
| Liz White | Pamela Barnes |
| Elizabeth Berrington | Cynical Lady |
| Emma Amos | Cynical Lady |
A middle-aged mother secretly works as an abortionist in low-rent London neighborhoods in the 1950s.
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