Kathy Bates

Madeline "Maddie" Matlock, Madeline "Matty" Matlock

Sylvia Simon

Bobi Jewell

Ma Ferguson

Barbara Haggermaker

Dorothy Kenyon

Ruth

Joan Blondell

Nina

Self

Ida Marquette

Maime Trotter

Self

Lenore

Self (archive footage)

Beth

Stella Mae

Ms. Miriam Mead, Madame Delphine LaLaurie, Ethel Darling, Thomasin "The Butcher" White / Actress Agnes Mary Winstead, Agnes Mary Winstead / Thomasyn White, Delphine LaLaurie, Miriam Mead, Iris

Gertrude Stein

Self

Miss Sue

Mrs. Green

Charlotte Everly

Self

Hester (voice)

Patricia

Janet Benson (voice)

Mrs. Fowler

The Judge

Agnes Menure

Sue

Aunt Mitsy (uncredited)

D.O. Rothy (voice)

Queen Victoria

Patrol Officer Jane Cooper (voice)

Roberta Hertzel

Grace Beasley

Mrs. Belmont

Ma James

Bankruptcy Judge (uncredited)

Mama Helen Boucher

Libby Holden

Molly Brown

Dolores Claiborne

Alaskan Mom

Evelyn Couch

Prostitute

Annie Wilkes

Jessie

Narrator (voice)

Mrs. Canby

Helen Blake

Woman on Mateo Street

Furniture Man's Wife

Selma Darin

Sally Allison

Self