
Ruth Wilson
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Andorra
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The Lone Ranger
2013

Anna Karenina
2012

Saving Mr. Banks
2013

Capturing Mary
2007

Locke
2014

A Real Summer
2007

Suite Française
2015

An Audience with Kylie
2023

How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017

Family
2024

The Doctor Who Hears Voices
2008

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
2016

Dark River
2017

National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017

The Little Stranger
2018

Secrets of the Solar System
2015

The Book of Ruth
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True Things
2022

Eleanor
2015

Get Off My Land
2007

Oslo
2021

See How They Run
2022

Urchin
2025

Untitled Luther Sequel
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Luther
2010

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Suburban Shootout
2006

Jane Eyre
2006

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011

Ceramics A Fragile History
2011

Small Island
2009

The Affair
2014

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015

His Dark Materials
2019

Mrs Wilson
2018

A Very Royal Scandal
2024

The Woman in the Wall
2023

The Prisoner
2009

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

Down Cemetery Road
2025

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Reported Missing
2017

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Horizon
1964