Ruth Wilson

Biography

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

Miss Quay

Andorra

Rebecca Reid

The Lone Ranger

Princess Betsy Tverskoy

Anna Karenina

Margaret Goff

Saving Mr. Banks

Young Mary

Capturing Mary

Katrina (voice)

Locke

Mary Gilbert / Geraldine

A Real Summer

Madeleine Labarie

Suite Française

Self

An Audience with Kylie

PT Stella

How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Family

"Ruth"

The Doctor Who Hears Voices

Lily

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

Alice Bell

Dark River

Hedda Gabler

National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler

Caroline Ayres

The Little Stranger

Narrator

Secrets of the Solar System

Ruth Coker Burks

The Book of Ruth

Kate

True Things

Woman

Get Off My Land

Eleanor

Eleanor

Mona Juul

Oslo

Petula Spencer

See How They Run

Meditation Tape (voice)

Urchin

Alice Morgan

Untitled Luther Sequel