Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Cate Blanchett
as Lady Gertrude Chiltern
Minnie Driver
as Miss Mabel Chiltern
Rupert Everett
as Lord Arthur Goring
Julianne Moore
as Mrs. Laura Cheveley
Jeremy Northam
as Sir Robert Chiltern
Peter Vaughan
as Phipps
Ben Pullen
as Tommy Trafford
Marsha Fitzalan
as Countess
Lindsay Duncan
as Lady Markby
John Wood
as Lord Caversham
Simon Russell Beale
as Sir Edward
Charles Edwards
as Jack
