* Kenneth Branagh as Ernest Shackleton
* Charles Dance as Frank Wild
* Patrick Ryecart as Tom Crean
* Timothy West as Sir Leonard Huxley
* Alison Steadman as Emily Shackleton
* Peter Vaughan as Sir Clements Markham
* Paul Freeman as Frank Worsley
The film was a television miniseries, so it had a larger cast than a feature film. You can find a full list of the cast on websites like IMDb.