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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Place of Birth

Bristol, England, UK

Ruth Gemmell

Biography:

Ruth Katrin Gemmell (born October 1967) is a British actress. She is known for portraying the role of Lady Violet Bridgerton in the Netflix period drama series Bridgerton.

Known For

Acting

2025

Cleaner as Claire Hume

2023

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story as Lady Violet Bridgerton

2021

2020

Bridgerton as Lady Violet Bridgerton

2019

Cliffs of Freedom as Varvara Vakrinos

2018

2017

Ransom as Laurie

2015

Home Fires as Sarah Collingborne

2014

Penny Dreadful as Octavia Putney

2013

Big Girl as Lynn
Father Brown as Martha Quinton
Dancing on the Edge as Lady Winnet
Utopia as Jen Dugdale

2012

Storage 24 as Sarah
Offender as Officer Cassie
Inside Men as Rebecca

2011

The Fades as Alice

2010

F as Sarah Balham

2009

Moving On as Joanne

2008

Good as Elisabeth
Summerhill as Rose

2007

Lewis as Robyn Strong

2006

January 2nd as Claire

2004

Doc Martin as Shirley Knott

2002

Spooks as Miranda

2001

Waking the Dead as DI Jess Worrall
Waking the Dead as Linda Cummings
Murder in Mind as Liz Willis

1999

The Alchemists as Julia Bannerman

1998

Macbeth as Lady Macduff

1997

Fever Pitch as Sarah Hughes
Midsomer Murders as Diana Carnarvon
Midsomer Murders as Anne Merrick

1996

Dalziel & Pascoe as Rachel Waller

1995

Kavanagh Q.C. as Jenny Norris

1993

Peak Practice as Christine Higson

1992

A Touch of Frost as Christine Harris

1991

1989

Agatha Christie's Poirot as Miss Sweetiman

1986

Casualty as Kate Margolin

1984

The Bill as Jane Joyce
The Bill as Rebecca Sands
The Bill as Sue Latham

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Chrysanthemum as Janet