Keeley Hawes's debut.
The role of Lady Verinder - here played by Patricia Hodge - had been played by Kathleen Byron in The Moonstone (1972) and would be played by Sophie Ward in The Moonstone (2016). Hodge had been Bryon's castmates in The Elephant Man (1980) and had co-starred with Ward in Patricia Hodge. Byron had also co-starred in Portrait of a Marriage (1990), which was created by Hodge.