| The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Catherine McCormack | Virginia Woolf | 3 |
| James Norton | Young Duncan Grant | 3 |
| Lucy Boynton | Angelica Garnett | 3 |
| Lydia Leonard | Young Virginia Woolf | 3 |
| Rupert Penry-Jones | Duncan Grant | 3 |
| Finn Jones | Julian Bell | 3 |
| Anton Lesser | Dr. Hyslop | 3 |
| Deborah Findlay | Aunt Jane | 3 |
| Jack Davenport | David Garnett | 3 |
| Al Weaver | Leonard Woolf | 3 |
| Andrew Havill | Older Clive Bell | 3 |
| Phoebe Fox | Young Vanessa Bell | 3 |
| Ben Lloyd-Hughes | David Garnett | 3 |
| Ed Birch | Lytton Strachey | 3 |
| Guy Henry | Older Leonard | 3 |
| Eve Best | Older Vanessa Bell | 3 |
| Sam Hoare | Young Clive Bell | 3 |
| Edmund Kingsley | Maynard Keynes | 3 |
| Christian Brassington | Cuthbert | 3 |