Ruth Wilson

Acting · Born 1982-01-13 in Ashford, Surrey, England

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

• Saving Mr. Banks as Margaret Goff
• Suite Française as Madeleine Labarie
• The Lone Ranger as Rebecca Reid
• Anna Karenina as Princess Betsy Tverskoy
• Capturing Mary as Young Mary
• Locke as Katrina (voice)
• A Real Summer as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
• An Audience with Kylie as Self
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties as PT Stella
• I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House as Lily

TV

• Luther as Alice Morgan
• Jane Eyre as Jane Eyre
• His Dark Materials as Mrs Coulter
• Agatha Christie's Marple as Georgina Barrow
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
• Suburban Shootout as Jewel Diamond
• The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
• Small Island as Queenie
• The Affair as Alison Bailey
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self