Ruth Wilson

Ruth Wilson

13 Jan 1982 (42 years old) in Ashford, Surrey, England

Ruth Wilson MBE (born 13 January 1982) is an English actress. She is known for her performances as the eponymous protagonist in Jane Eyre (2006), as Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama Luther (2010–2013, 2019), as Alison Lockhart in the Showtime drama The Affair (2014–2018), and as the eponymous character in Mrs Wilson (2018). Since 2019, she has portrayed Marisa Coulter in the BBC/HBO fantasy series His Dark Materials, and for this role she won the 2020 BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress. Her film credits include The Lone Ranger (2013), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016), and Dark River (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Wilson (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Credits

  • 2024 · A Very Royal Scandal as Emily Maitlis
  • 2024 · Family as
  • 2023 · An Audience with Kylie as Self
  • 2023 · The Woman in the Wall as Lorna Brady
  • 2022 · See How They Run as Petula Spencer
  • 2022 · True Things as Kate
  • 2021 · Oslo as Mona Juul
  • 2019 · His Dark Materials as Mrs Coulter
  • 2018 · Mrs Wilson as Alison Wilson
  • 2018 · The Little Stranger as Caroline Ayres
  • 2018 · Dark River as Alice Bell
  • 2017 · How to Talk to Girls at Parties as PT Stella
  • 2017 · Reported Missing as Self - Narrator (voice)
  • 2017 · National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler
  • 2016 · I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House as Lily
  • 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
  • 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
  • 2015 · Eleanor as Eleanor
  • 2015 · Suite Française as Madeleine Labarie
  • 2015 · Secrets of the Solar System as Narrator
  • 2014 · The Affair as Alison Bailey
  • 2014 · Locke as Katrina (voice)
  • 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
  • 2013 · Saving Mr. Banks as Margaret Goff
  • 2013 · The Lone Ranger as Rebecca Reid
  • 2012 · Anna Karenina as Princess Betsy Tverskoy
  • 2011 · Ceramics A Fragile History as Narrator (Voice)
  • 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
  • 2010 · Luther as Alice Morgan
  • 2009 · Small Island as Queenie
  • 2009 · The Prisoner as 313
  • 2008 · The Doctor Who Hears Voices as "Ruth"
  • 2007 · Capturing Mary as Young Mary
  • 2007 · A Real Summer as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
  • 2007 · Get Off My Land as Woman
  • 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
  • 2006 · Jane Eyre as Jane Eyre
  • 2006 · Suburban Shootout as Jewel Diamond
  • 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Georgina Barrow
  • 2024 · Andorra as Miss Quay
  • 2024 · The Book of Ruth as Ruth Coker Burks
  • 2024 · Down Cemetery Road as Sarah Tucker