| Captain |
Alvarado | The Captain, traveler |
| The |
Archbishop | Archbishop of Lima |
| De |
Blasiis | Clara's protégé, cartographer |
| Vicente |
d'Aguirre | Doña María's son-in-law |
| Ruiz |
de Alarcón | A playwright |
| Vico |
de Barrera | A well-known poet |
| Juan |
de Lara | Character in the play |
| Rosa |
de las Rosas | Directress of the Convent of Santa María |
| Tirso |
de Molina | A playwright |
| Andrés |
de Ribera | The Viceroy of Peru |
| Princesse |
des Ursins | Princess interviewed by Uncle Pio |
| Don |
Jaime | Camila's son |
| Sister |
Juana | The convent's gardener in chief |
| Brother |
Juniper | Friar, investigating the victims' lives |
| Doña |
María | Noblewoman, mother of Clara. Aka:Marquesa de Montemayor |
| A. |
Nephew | The writer of the note at the end |
| Camila |
Perichole | Actress. |
| María del |
Pilar | Abbess of the Convent |
| Uncle |
Pio | Camila's all-around man and mentor |
| Micaela |
Villegas | Perichole's real name |
| Calderón |
| A poet |
| Clara |
| Doña María's daughter |
| Esteban |
| The Abbess's favorite orphan |
| Estrella |
| The woman who approached Camila |
| Manuel |
| Esteban's twin, the Abbess's favorite orphan |
| Pepita |
| Young girl Doña María borrowed from her orphanage |
| Rubio |
| Doña María's cook |