Ruth Wilson
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Filmography
Victorian Psycho
2026
as Mrs. Pounds
Urchin
2025
as Meditation Tape (voice)
Down Cemetery Road
2025
as Sarah Trafford
Behind the Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
2025
as Self
Family
2024
as Naomi
A Very Royal Scandal
2024
as Emily Maitlis
An Audience with Kylie
2023
as Self
The Woman in the Wall
2023
as Lorna Brady
True Things
2022
as Kate
See How They Run
2022
as Petula Spencer
Oslo
2021
as Mona Juul
His Dark Materials
2019
as Mrs Coulter
The Little Stranger
2018
as Caroline Ayres
Mrs Wilson
2018
as Alison Wilson
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017
as PT Stella
Dark River
2017
as Alice Bell
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017
as Hedda Gabler
Reported Missing
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
2016
as Lily
Suite Française
2015
as Madeleine Labarie
Secrets of the Solar System
2015
as Narrator
Eleanor
2015
as Eleanor
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Locke
2014
as Katrina (voice)
The Affair
2014
as Alison Bailey
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Lone Ranger
2013
as Rebecca Reid
Saving Mr. Banks
2013
as Margaret Goff
Anna Karenina
2012
as Princess Betsy Tverskoy
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self
Ceramics A Fragile History
2011
as Narrator (Voice)
Luther
2010
as Alice Morgan
Small Island
2009
as Queenie
The Prisoner
2009
as 313
The Doctor Who Hears Voices
2008
as "Ruth"
Freezing
2008
as Alison Fennel
Capturing Mary
2007
as Young Mary
A Real Summer
2007
as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
Get Off My Land
2007
as Woman
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Suburban Shootout
2006
as Jewel Diamond
Jane Eyre
2006
as Jane Eyre
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Georgina Barrow
Horizon
1964
as Narrator