North & South: Cast Rate: –☹️ Very Bad🙁 Bad😐 Average🙂 Good😃 Excellent🤩 Super! ★ Save Rating✔ Rating Saved! Notify me: –about new episodeabout new seasonabout end of season Subscribe✔ Subscription Saved! North & South Drama, Romance 11/14/04 – 11/14/04 United Kingdom http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kq3rz GeneralEpisodesTranslationsCastCharactersGallery Cast See full cast → Pauline Quirke as Dixon Richard Armitage as John Thornton Sinéad Cusack as Hannah Thornton Tim Pigott-Smith as Richard Hale Jo Joyner as Fanny Thornton Brendan Coyle as Nicholas Higgins Anna Maxwell Martin as Bessy Higgins Emma Ferguson as Edith Shaw Lennox Jane Booker as Mrs Shaw John Light as Henry Lennox Lesley Manville as Maria Hale Lucy Brown as Ann Latimer Brian Protheroe as Mr Bell Travis Oliver as Capt. Maxwell Lennox Rupert Evans as Frederick Hale