| Walter | Archer | Retired lawyer. |
| Badri | Aslan | Bahman's mother. |
| Bahman | Aslan | Roya's old lover. |
| Mr. | Aslan | Bahman's father. |
| Lucille | Ball | American actress. |
| Claire | Becker | Assistant administrator at Duxton Center. |
| Jack | Bishop | Zari's boyfriend. |
| Lauren | Bocall | American actress. |
| Humphrey | Bogart | American film actor. |
| Charlie | Chaplin | English comic actor. |
| Rosemary | Clooney | American singer and actress. |
| Madame | Curie | French-Polish physicist. |
| Miss | Dashti | Roya's literature teacher. |
| Vittorio | De Sica | Italian director. |
| James | Dean | American actor. |
| Fyodor | Dostoyevsky | Russian novelist. |
| Dwight | Eisenhower | 34th U.S. President. |
| Alice | Fakhri | Owner of the Stationery Shop. |
| Clark | Gable | American film actor. |
| Cyrus | Ghodoosi | Communist and an activist. |
| Cary | Grant | American actor. |
| | Hafez | Persian poet. |
| Ernest | Hemingway | American journalist. |
| Saddam | Hussein | Former president of Iraq. |
| Agha | Kayhani | Roya's and Zira's father. |
| Khanom | Kayhani | Roya and Zira's mother. Aka: Manijeh. |
| Seda | Kebabjian | Roya's friend. |
| Helen | Keller | American author. |
| Omar | Khayyam | Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet. |
| Ayatollah | Khomeini | Former supreme leader of Iran. |
| Mrs. | Kishpaugh | Roya and Zari's landlady. |
| Sophia | Loren | Italian film actress. |
| Mrs. | Michael | Roya's neighbor. |
| Robert | Mitchum | American film actor. |
| Mohammad | Mossadegh | 35th Prime minister of Iran. |
| Nematollah | Nassiri | Director of the SAVAK, Iranian intelligence agency. |
| Mr. | Rosenberg | One of the senior citizens. |
| | Rumi | Persian poet. |
| Omar | Said | Walter's classmate. |
| Rezah | Shah | King of Iran. |
| Saadi | Shirazo | Persian novelist. |
| Frank | Sinatra | American singer. |
| Jimmy | Stewart | American actor. |
| Jaleh | Tabatabayi | A communist and activitist. |
| Henry David | Thoreau | American essayist. |
| Mrs. | Ventura | One of the senior citizens. |
| Walt | Whitman | American poet. |
| Faztollah | Zahedi | Iranian statesman. |
| Abbas | | School door guard. |
| Alice | | Walter's mother. |
| Atieh | | Ali's second cousin. |
| Darius | | Zari's son. |
| Jahangir | | Bahman's good friend. |
| Jenna | | Claire's friend. |
| Kazeb | | Housemaid. |
| Kyle | | Roya's son. |
| Leila | | Darius' younger sister. |
| Marigold | | Walter and Roya's daughter. |
| Miss Emily | | One of the senior citizens. |
| Omid | | Bahman's son. |
| Patricia | | Walter's older sister. aka: Pat. |
| Richard | | Walter's friend. |
| Roya | | Walter's wife. |
| Sanaz | | Omid's twin sister. |
| Shahla | | Bahman's fiance. |
| Susan | | Richard's wife. |
| Yousof | | Zira's crush. |
| Zari | | Roya's younger sister. |
