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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1982-01-13 (43 years old)

Place of Birth

Ashford, Surrey, England

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).

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Known For

Acting

2024

A Very Royal Scandal as Emily Maitlis

2023

An Audience with Kylie as Self

The Woman in the Wall as Lorna Brady

2022

True Things as Kate

See How They Run as Petula Spencer

2021

Oslo as Mona Juul

2019

His Dark Materials as Mrs Coulter

2018

The Little Stranger as Caroline Ayres

Mrs Wilson as Alison Wilson

2017

How to Talk to Girls at Parties as PT Stella

Dark River as Alice Bell

National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler

Reported Missing as Self - Narrator (voice)

2016

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House as Lily

2015

Suite Française as Madeleine Labarie

Secrets of the Solar System as Narrator

Eleanor as Eleanor

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self

2014

Locke as Katrina (voice)

The Affair as Alison Bailey

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self

2013

The Lone Ranger as Rebecca Reid

Saving Mr. Banks as Margaret Goff

2012

Anna Karenina as Princess Betsy Tverskoy

2011

The Jonathan Ross Show as Self

Ceramics A Fragile History as Narrator (Voice)

2010

Luther as Alice Morgan

2009

Small Island as Queenie

The Prisoner as 313

2008

The Doctor Who Hears Voices as "Ruth"

2007

Capturing Mary as Young Mary

A Real Summer as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine

Get Off My Land as Woman

The Graham Norton Show as Self

2006

Suburban Shootout as Jewel Diamond

Jane Eyre as Jane Eyre

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Georgina Barrow

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Andorra as Miss Quay

The Book of Ruth as Ruth Coker Burks

Down Cemetery Road as Sarah Tucker

Production

2023

The Woman in the Wall as Executive Producer

2022

True Things as Producer

2018

Mrs Wilson as Executive Producer