Elisabeth, Empress of Austria – Maike Boerdam

Luigi Lucheni, Elisabeth's murderer –  Carsten Lepper

Der Tod, Elisabeth's lover – Uwe Kröger

Emperor Franz Joseph, Elisabeth's husband – André Bauer

Archduchess Sophie, Elisabeth's mother-in-law  – Gabrielle Ramm

Archduke Rudolf, Elisabeth's son  – Jesper Tydén (u/s Der Tod)

Rudolf as a child –

Duke Max in Bavaria, Elisabeth's father – Frank Logemann (u/s Lucheni)

Duchess Ludovika, Elisabeth's mother – Sabine Maria Reiß (u/s Sophie)

Helene von Wittelsbach, Elisabeth's sister  – Eva-Maria Bender

Count Grünne, Imperial adjutant – Paul Stampehl

Archbishop Rauscher– Detlef Leistenschneider (u/s Lucheni, u/s Franz Joseph)

Prince Schwarzenberg, minister – Thomas Christ (u/s Max)

Baron Hübner, Viennese capitalist – Johan Samuelsson (u/s der Tod)

Baron Kempen, Chief of Police – Nico Gaik (u/s Rudolf)

Countess Sztáray –  Wiebke Woetzel

Countess Esterházy-Liechtenstein – Juliana Albrecht (u/s Sophie)

Maximilian of Mexico – Gordon Gesatzki (Andrássy)

Mary Vetsera – Kathleen Bauer (credited as Eine Mutter)

A young Hungarian nobleman – Markus Geiss (Batthyány)

Fanny Feifalik, Elisabeth's hairdresser – Holly Hylton

A lady-in-waiting (Hofdame) – probably Claudia Wendrinsky

A governess (Gouvernante) – Kathrin Genitheim

A professor – Henrik Sehnert (credited as Károlyi)

Fräulein Windisch, a madwoman – Franziska Forster (u/s Elisabeth)

Frau Wolf  – Sabine Maria Reiß

Dancers (Todesengel): Sabine Merkel, Jo Shanks, Silvia Varelli, Alberto Parisi, Chi-Liang Shih

Swings: Sven Olaf Denkinger (u/s Rudolf), Alison Hughes, Natalie Kleeberger, Anja Mattner (u/s Ludovika/Frau Wolf), Marcel Meyer (u/s Max) , Tim Reichwein (u/s Franz Joseph), Christian Tschinder, Claudia Wendrinsky, Tina Podstawa