 | Keira Knightley als Sally Alexander |
 | Gugu Mbatha-Raw als Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada |
 | Jessie Buckley als Jo Robinson |
 | Keeley Hawes als Julia Morley |
 | Phyllis Logan als Evelyn Alexander |
 | Lesley Manville als Dolores Hope |
 | Rhys Ifans als Eric Morley |
 | Greg Kinnear als Bob Hope |
 | John Heffernan als Gareth |
 | Suki Waterhouse als Sandra Anne Wolsfeld - Miss USA |
 | Ruby Bentall als Sarah |
 | Alexa Davies als Sue |
 | Lily Newmark als Jane |
 | Loreece Harrison als Pearl Janssen - Miss Africa South |
 | Clara Rosager als Maj Christel Johansson - Miss Sweden |
 | Emma Corrin als Jillian Jessup - Miss South Africa |
 | Daniel Tiplady als Archie |
 | Kajsa Mohammar als Eva Rueber-Staier |
 | Stephen Boxer als Professor Davidson |
 | Justin Salinger als Bearded Marxist Professor |
 | Maya Kelly als Abi |
 | Jo Herbert als Sheila |
| Ed Eales White als Journalist 1 |
 | Jonathan Rhodes als Journalist 2 |
 | Eileen O'Higgins als Joan Billings |
 | Laurel Lefkow als Bob's Secretary |
 | Amanda Lawrence als Miss Gilboy |
 | Samuel Blenkin als Lawrence |
 | Nicholas Nunn als Jeremy |
 | Robert Irons als Newsreader |
 | Jojo Macari als Dave |
 | Luke Thompson als Peter Hain |
 | Miles Jupp als Clive |
 | Polly Kemp als Mrs Day |
| Brig Bennett als Mrs McKenzie |
 | Katy Carmichael als Margaret |
 | Sam Alexander als Reporter |
 | Emma D'Arcy als Hazel |
 | Clarence Smith als Prime Minister Gairy |
| Thomas Smart als Ambassador of Indonesia |
 | Charlotte Spencer als Marjorie Jones |
 | Rupert Vansittart als Lord Bly |
 | John Sackville als Robin Day |
 | Lily Travers als Anna - Air Hostess |
 | Isis Hainsworth als Jenny |
| Mary Higgins als Catherine |
 | Victor Gardener als Head of Security |
 | Nicholas Murchie als BBC Broadcaster |
| Edmund Digby-Jones als Floor Manager Neville |
 | Charlie Anson als Michael Aspel |
 | Ria Zmitrowicz als Mair |
| Jennifer Hosten als Self |
| Sally Alexander als Self |
| Jo Robinson als Self |
 | Pearl Janssen als Self |
 | Eric Morley als Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Philippa Lowthorpe | Director |
| Rebecca Frayn | Story |
| Jenny Borgars | Executive Producer |
| Chris Lahr | Production Executive |
| Suzanne Mackie | Producer |
| Sarah Wheale | Producer |
| Cameron McCracken | Executive Producer |
| Andrea Scarso | Executive Producer |
| Gaby Chiappe | Screenplay |
| Rebecca Frayn | Screenplay |
| Andy Harries | Executive Producer |
| Rebecca Frayn | Executive Producer |
| Rose Garnett | Executive Producer |
| Natascha Wharton | Executive Producer |
| Zac Nicholson | Director of Photography |
| Cristina Casali | Production Design |
| Úna Ní Dhonghaíle | Editor |
| Charlotte Walter | Costume Design |
| Jill Sweeney | Makeup Designer |
| Jill Sweeney | Hair Designer |
| Dickon Hinchliffe | Original Music Composer |
| Nina Gold | Casting |
| Toni Staples | First Assistant Director |
| Beth Timbrell | Unit Production Manager |
| Polly Duval | Post Production Supervisor |
| Freya Pinsent | Finance |
| Martin Beresford | Production Sound Mixer |
| Sion Clarke | Supervising Art Director |
| Jen Moss | Music Supervisor |
| Niv Adiri | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Niv Adiri | Sound Designer |
| Peter Byrne | First Assistant Camera |
| Abigail Catto | Second Assistant Camera |
| Nathan Lloyd | Assistant Camera |
| Rob Carter | Steadicam Operator |
| Rob Carter | Camera Operator |
| Harry Bennett-Snewin | Digital Imaging Technician |
| Paddy Driscoll | Camera Trainee |
| Andy Woodcock | Grip |
| Ian Ogden | Grip |
| Sean Kelly | Assistant Grip |
| Kerry Gill-Pryde | Script Editor |
| Carole Salisbury | Script Supervisor |
| Scott Eaton | Production Supervisor |
| Dorothee Freytag | Production Coordinator |
| Daniella Baggaley | Assistant Production Coordinator |
| Chelcie Harman | Production Assistant |
| Rajneet Jabbal | Assistant Accountant |
| Jo Tew | Second Assistant Director |
| James Reid | Third Assistant Director |
| Mark Johnstone | Crowd Assistant Director |
| Amy King | Crowd Assistant Director |
| Vlad Cirdeiu | Set Production Assistant |
| Sam Courtney | Set Production Assistant |
| Laura Southall | Stand In |
| Beatrice Bowdon | Actor's Assistant |
| Lee James | Sound Assistant |
| Julian Bale | Sound Assistant |
| William Conacher | Dialect Coach |
| Holly Morpeth | Art Direction |
| Paddy Paddison | Standby Art Director |
| Guy Bevitt | Assistant Art Director |
| Emma Painter | Assistant Art Director |
| Lawrence Barford | Draughtsman |
| Louis Burnett | Graphic Designer |
| Indigo Rumbelow | Art Department Assistant |
| Claudia Parker | Set Decoration |
| Clare Porritt | Assistant Set Decoration |
| Dan Pitt | Set Buyer |
| Elin Stone | Petty Cash Buyer |
| Rachel Garlick | Storyboard Artist |
| Ewan Robertson | Property Master |
| Dan Pye | Dressing Prop |
| Tony Knight | Dressing Prop |
| Bob Thorne | Dressing Prop |
| Aaron Gilbert | Dressing Prop |
| Jake Moynihan | Dressing Prop |
| Gary Locke | Dressing Prop |
| Hannah Walter | Costume Supervisor |
| Kate Eden | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Jason Marshall | Principal Costumer |
| Anna Spencer | Principal Costumer |
| Lizzie Moul | Principal Costumer |
| Debbi Salmon | Hair Supervisor |
| Debbi Salmon | Makeup Supervisor |
| Rowena Dean | Hairstylist |
| Rowena Dean | Makeup Artist |
| Sarah Johnson | Hairstylist |
| Sarah Johnson | Makeup Artist |
| Angie White | Makeup Trainee |
| Katie Wallis | Makeup Trainee |
| Russell Daly | Construction Manager |
| Ian Davie | Carpenter |
| Chris Westwood | Carpenter |
| Raff Pereira | Carpenter |
| Tessa Scott | Painter |
| Matt Amos | Painter |
| Amanda Waddington | Painter |
| Kate Butner | Painter |
| Andrew "Wiggy" Smith | Standby Carpenter |
| Jonny Franklin | Gaffer |
| Tom Guy | Best Boy Electric |
| Martin Taylor | Rigging Gaffer |
| Westley Agius | Electrician |
| William Sheffield | Electrician |
| Jerdan Taylor | Electrician |
| John Malaney | Electrician |
| Davey Mayes | Generator Operator |
| Tom Howard | Location Manager |
| Jack Leary | Assistant Location Manager |
| Harriet Wharton | Assistant Location Manager |
| Lauren Chambers | Unit Manager |
| Daniel Leebody | Location Assistant |
| Tim Smart | Security Coordinator |
| Roy Williams | Security |
| Ron Bird | Security |
| Adam Waine | Security |
| Tony Singh | Security |
| Stuart Sumpton | Security |
| Josh Renshaw | Security |
| Sarah Franzl | Stunt Coordinator |
| Belinda McGinley | Stunt Double |
| Lucy Allen | Stunt Double |
| James Grogan | Stunts |
| Lloyd Bass | Stunts |
| Matt Da Silva | Stunts |
| Joe Paxton | Stunts |
| Lucy Amos | Casting Associate |
| Sacha Garrett | Casting Assistant |
| Adrian Wilkinson | Unit Medic |
| Johnny O'Neill | Driver |
| Louise Cornwell | Driver |
| Huseyin Pehlivan | Driver |
| Fergus Cotter | Driver |
| Tomas Piekus | Driver |
| Mark Rimpo | Driver |
| Sam Renton | Second Unit Director of Photography |
| John Ellis Evans | Additional Camera |
| Dora Krolikowska | Additional First Assistant Camera |
| Jack Sands | Additional Second Assistant Camera |
| Jessica Saunders | Additional Second Assistant Camera |
| Chris Reynolds | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Alistair Poulter | Special Effects Technician |
| Izabella Curry | First Assistant Editor |
| Gillian Dodders | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Gillian Dodders | Supervising ADR Editor |
| Ben Barker | Sound Designer |
| Danny Freemantle | Sound Effects Editor |
| Robert Malone | Sound Effects Editor |
| Dayo James | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Nick Freemantle | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Julia Barker | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Niv Adiri | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Brendan Nicholson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Jemma Riley-Tolch | Foley Mixer |
| Lilly Blazewicz | Foley Editor |
| Zoe Freed | Foley Artist |
| Rebecca Heathcote | Foley Artist |
| James Gregory | ADR Mixer |
| Simon Hughes | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Zafar Janjua | Visual Effects Producer |
| Dillan Nicholls | Digital Effects Supervisor |
| Jolien Buijs | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Alexander Ha | CG Artist |
| Tom Hurd | CG Artist |
| Matt Moult | CG Artist |
| Noel O'Malley | CG Supervisor |
| Michele Fabbro | VFX Artist |
| Marcelo Sousa | VFX Artist |
| Nicholas Zissimos | Compositing Lead |
| Andrea Aceto | Compositor |
| Lindsey Lo Presti | Compositor |
| Ralph Dubber | Compositor |
| Callum Mcnulty | Compositor |
| Erdem Gonulay | Compositor |
| Jose Alberto Pino | Compositor |
| Jacob Green | Compositor |
| Hannah Sornay | Compositor |
| Vicki Juhasz | Compositor |
| Christopher Tang | Compositor |
| Joanna Barcikowska | Rotoscoping Artist |
| Tom Mortelette | Rotoscoping Artist |
| Tord Liljedahl Tønnesen | Rotoscoping Artist |
| Vanessa Taylor | Digital Colorist |
| Marie Fernandes | Digital Intermediate Producer |
| Richard Cradick | Online Editor |
| Nicki Foster | Unit Publicist |
| Jonathan Rutter | Unit Publicist |
| Parisa Taghizadeh | Still Photographer |
| Toby James | Epk Producer |
| Hugo Currie | Epk Camera Operator |
| Rob Holloway | Vehicles Coordinator |
| Paul Newbury | Catering Head Chef |
| Dave Jones | Camera Truck |
| Rachael Ellis | Executive In Charge Of Post Production |
| Richard Todd | Production Coordinator |
| Jess Leech | Production Coordinator |
| Charlotte Fitzgerald | Producer's Assistant |
| Hilary Benson | Production Director |
| Sophie Badman | Post Production Assistant |
| Jennifer Hosten | Production Consultant |
| Peter Cobbin | Score Engineer |
| Peter Cobbin | Scoring Mixer |
| Kirsty Whalley | Score Engineer |
| Kirsty Whalley | Scoring Mixer |
| Dickon Hinchliffe | Music Arranger |
| Simon Hale | Conductor |
| Lucy Wilkins | Orchestrator |
| Alison Garner | Vocals |
| Gina Foster | Vocals |
| Ralph Salmins | Musician |
| Timeri Duplat | Music Editor |
| Helen Miles | Sound Mix Technician |
| Andrew Caller | Sound Mix Technician |
