Ruth Wilson
Acting • Born 1982-01-13
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.
Filmography
45 credits
Andorra
Movie
Miss Quay
The Lone Ranger
Movie • 2013
Rebecca Reid
Anna Karenina
Movie • 2012
Princess Betsy Tverskoy
Saving Mr. Banks
Movie • 2013
Margaret Goff
Capturing Mary
Movie • 2007
Young Mary
Locke
Movie • 2014
Katrina (voice)
A Real Summer
Movie • 2007
Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
Suite Française
Movie • 2015
Madeleine Labarie
An Audience with Kylie
Movie • 2023
Self
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Movie • 2017
PT Stella
Family
Movie • 2024
The Doctor Who Hears Voices
Movie • 2008
"Ruth"
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Movie • 2016
Lily
Dark River
Movie • 2017
Alice Bell
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
Movie • 2017
Hedda Gabler
The Little Stranger
Movie • 2018
Caroline Ayres
Secrets of the Solar System
Movie • 2015
Narrator
The Book of Ruth
Movie
Ruth Coker Burks
True Things
Movie • 2022
Kate
Get Off My Land
Movie • 2007
Woman
Eleanor
Movie • 2015
Eleanor
Oslo
Movie • 2021
Mona Juul
See How They Run
Movie • 2022
Petula Spencer
Urchin
Movie • 2025
Meditation Tape (voice)
Untitled Luther Sequel
Movie
Alice Morgan
Luther
TV • 2010
Alice Morgan
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Suburban Shootout
TV • 2006
Jewel Diamond
Jane Eyre
TV • 2006
Jane Eyre
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV • 2011
Self
Ceramics A Fragile History
TV • 2011
Narrator (Voice)
Small Island
TV • 2009
Queenie
The Affair
TV • 2014
Alison Bailey
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
His Dark Materials
TV • 2019
Mrs Coulter
Mrs Wilson
TV • 2018
Alison Wilson
A Very Royal Scandal
TV • 2024
Emily Maitlis
The Woman in the Wall
TV • 2023
Lorna Brady
The Prisoner
TV • 2009
313
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Georgina Barrow
Down Cemetery Road
TV • 2025
Sarah Trafford
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Reported Missing
TV • 2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Horizon
TV • 1964
Narrator