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(Credited cast) | Victoria Tennant | ... | Audra |
 | Peter Coyote | ... | Miles Sutherland |
 | Elizabeth Hurley | ... | Christina |
 | Kevin McNally | ... | Vincent Crowther |
 | Serena Gordon | ... | Gwen |
| Lynsey Baxter | ... | Jane Sedgewick |
 | Jean Marsh | ... | Eliza Crowther |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Sheila Allen | ... | Dulcie Sedgewick |
| John Basham | ... | Frank Crowther |
| Richard Bebb | ... | Ralph Sedgewick |
| Gillian Bevan | ... | Millie Arnold |
| Marianne Borgo | ... | Giselle Roux |
 | Rebecca Callard | ... | Maggie Crowther (as Rebecca Sowden) |
 | Andrew Castell | ... | Mike Leslie |
| Patrick Connolly | ... | Danny Crowther |
| Christine Cox | ... | Sister |
| Kelly Cryer | ... | Ward Maid 2 |
| Elizabeth Downes | ... | Secretary |
| Marilyn Finlay | ... | Receptionist |
| Al Fiorentini | ... | Houseguards Hotel Manager |
| Miranda Forbes | ... | Nurse |
| Jo Gabb | ... | Christina Aged 15 |
| Julian Gartside | ... | Dr. Freemantle |
| Jeremy Gilley | ... | Frederick |
| Henry Goodman | ... | New York Registrar |
| Roger Grainger | ... | Vicar at Funeral |
| Ewan Hooper | ... | Alfred Crowther |
| Godfrey Jackman | ... | Fred Varley |
| Louisa Janes | ... | Christina Aged 10 |
| Melanie Jessop | ... | Laurette Crowther |
| Ken Jones | ... | Dr. Stalkey |
| Claude Le Saché | ... | Concierge at Raphael |
| Norman Lumsden | ... | Vicar at Wedding |
| Jack McNicholl | ... | Billy Crowther |
| Simon Merrick | ... | Percival Drummond |
| Stuart Milligan | ... | Alex |
| Judy Parfitt | ... | Alicia Drummond |
| Diana Payan | ... | Midwife |
| Carl Proctor | ... | Charlie Thornton |
| Mary Jo Randle | ... | Sister Rogers |
| Rachel Robertson | ... | Audra Aged 14 |
| Alison Rose | ... | Mother of Boy |
| Clifford Rose | ... | Hospital Specialist |
| Sheila Ruskin | ... | Candida Sutherland |
| Jason Savage | ... | William |
| Anthony Schaeffer | ... | Driver |
| Irene Sutcliffe | ... | Gwen's Housekeeper |
| Stella Tanner | ... | Landlady |
| Gillian Tompkins | ... | Ward Maid 1 |
| John Vine | ... | Doctor at Crash |
| Fiona Walker | ... | Matron Lennox |
| Sarah Winman | ... | Kyle |
| Joseph Wright | ... | Jack Crowther |
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One of Barbara Taylor Bradford's quietly celebrated heart-warming tales Act of Will concerns the young orphan Audra. Forced into work by her greedy aunt and uncle Audra discovers a talent for nursing with her friend Gwen who is bold and brassy, the polar opposite to the shy and well spoken Audra the two friends both find love, Audra with the destitute Vincent Crowther and Gwen with Mike Leslie, whom she quickly drops in favour of the wealthy doctor Geoffrey Freemantle. Angered by her treatment of Billy, Vince makes it clear to his new wife Audra he has no time for Gwen and goes out of way to avoid her. But Audra had other things on her mind. She has just fallen pregnant and both parents to be are thrilled but Audra soon miscarries. Believing that a wife's duties begin in the bedroom Vince is soon getting intimate with his wife again, much to Audra discomfort his sexual appetite is insatiable. She soon falls pregnant gain this time delivering a child Christina who she dotes upon and raises to be an artist. Years later and free willed beauty Christina is preparing to tell her parents she had given up the career her mother sacrificed everything for her to have, in order to be a fashion designer. She is also secretly in love with Miles Sutherland a prominent politician and the two are deep in a passionate affair but it is threatened when Christina drops a bombshell on her lover that she is pregnant. Determined to keep the baby, Christina is delighted to have her lovers support but she is involved in a car crash which causes her to miscarry. Christina throws herself into her work in a bid to help her cope but she can't forget about her lost baby nor the fact that she increasingly has to share Miles with his controlling wife baby survive?