Acting

Ruth Wilson

Born 1982-01-13 · 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.

Credits

Newest first

Victorian Psycho
as Mrs. Pounds
2026
Family
as Naomi
2026
Behind the Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
as Self
2025
Down Cemetery Road
as Sarah Trafford
2025
Urchin
as Meditation Tape (voice)
2025
A Very Royal Scandal
as Emily Maitlis
2024
An Audience with Kylie
as Self
2023
The Woman in the Wall
as Lorna Brady
2023
The Woman in the Wall
Executive Producer
2023
See How They Run
as Petula Spencer
2022
True Things
as Kate
2022
True Things
Producer
2022
Oslo
as Mona Juul
2021
His Dark Materials
as Mrs Coulter
2019
Mrs Wilson
as Alison Wilson
2018
Mrs Wilson
Executive Producer
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
2017
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
as Lily
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
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
2015
The Affair
as Alison Bailey
2014
Locke
as Katrina (voice)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
Saving Mr. Banks
as Margaret Goff
2013
The Lone Ranger
as Rebecca Reid
2013
Anna Karenina
as Princess Betsy Tverskoy
2012
Ceramics A Fragile History
as Narrator (Voice)
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
2011
Luther
as Alice Morgan
2010
Small Island
as Queenie
2009
The Prisoner
as 313
2009
The Doctor Who Hears Voices
as "Ruth"
2008
Freezing
as Alison Fennel
2008
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
2007
Jane Eyre
as Jane Eyre
2006
Suburban Shootout
as Jewel Diamond
2006
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Georgina Barrow
2004
Horizon
as Narrator
1964
Andorra
as Miss Quay
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The Book of Ruth
as Ruth Coker Burks
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Untitled Luther Sequel
as Alice Morgan
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