Mamie Gummer played the younger version of her real-life mother Meryl Streep, while Natasha Richardson played daughter to her real-life mother Dame Vanessa Redgrave.
Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, and Dame Eileen Atkins, as well as Executive Producer and Screenwriter Michael Cunningham, worked together on The Hours - Von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit (2002).
Keira Knightley was considered for the role of young Ann Grant Lord, but she was filming her last scenes of Pirates of the Caribbean - Am Ende der Welt (2007) and finishing the shooting of Abbitte (2007).
Meryl Streep and Patrick Wilson appeared in Angels in America (2003).