diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index 1524fcb15..b14cf0fc9 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
     categories:     A list of categories that the video falls in, for example
                     ["Sports", "Berlin"]
     tags:           A list of tags assigned to the video, e.g. ["sweden", "pop music"]
+    cast:           A list of the video cast
     is_live:        True, False, or None (=unknown). Whether this video is a
                     live stream that goes on instead of a fixed-length video.
     was_live:       True, False, or None (=unknown). Whether this video was
diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/pornhub.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/pornhub.py
index 031454600..cf407a813 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/pornhub.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/pornhub.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from ..compat import (
 )
 from .openload import PhantomJSwrapper
 from ..utils import (
+    clean_html,
     determine_ext,
     ExtractorError,
     int_or_none,
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ class PornHubIE(PornHubBaseIE):
             'age_limit': 18,
             'tags': list,
             'categories': list,
+            'cast': list,
         },
     }, {
         # non-ASCII title
@@ -464,7 +466,7 @@ class PornHubIE(PornHubBaseIE):
                 r'(?s)<div[^>]+\bclass=["\'].*?\b%sWrapper[^>]*>(.+?)</div>'
                 % meta_key, webpage, meta_key, default=None)
             if div:
-                return re.findall(r'<a[^>]+\bhref=[^>]+>([^<]+)', div)
+                return [clean_html(x).strip() for x in re.findall(r'(?s)<a[^>]+\bhref=[^>]+>.+?</a>', div)]
 
         info = self._search_json_ld(webpage, video_id, default={})
         # description provided in JSON-LD is irrelevant
@@ -485,6 +487,7 @@ class PornHubIE(PornHubBaseIE):
             'age_limit': 18,
             'tags': extract_list('tags'),
             'categories': extract_list('categories'),
+            'cast': extract_list('pornstars'),
             'subtitles': subtitles,
         }, info)