Portrait of Ruth Wilson

Ruth Wilson

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.

Born: January 13, 1982

Place of Birth: Ashford, Surrey, England

Filmography

2025
Down Cemetery Road

as Sarah Tucker

2025
Urchin

as Meditation Tape (voice)

2024
A Very Royal Scandal

as Emily Maitlis

2024
2023
The Woman in the Wall

as Lorna Brady

2022
See How They Run

as Petula Spencer

2022
2021
Oslo

as Mona Juul

2019
His Dark Materials

as Mrs Coulter

2018
Mrs Wilson

as Alison Wilson

2018
The Little Stranger

as Caroline Ayres

2017
Dark River

as Alice Bell

2017
Reported Missing

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2015
Eleanor

as Eleanor

2015
Suite Française

as Madeleine Labarie

2014
The Affair

as Alison Bailey

2014
Locke

as Katrina (voice)

2013
Saving Mr. Banks

as Margaret Goff

2013
The Lone Ranger

as Rebecca Reid

2012
Anna Karenina

as Princess Betsy Tverskoy

2011
Ceramics A Fragile History

as Narrator (Voice)

2010
Luther

as Alice Morgan

2009
Small Island

as Queenie

2009
2007
Capturing Mary

as Young Mary

2007
A Real Summer

as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine

2007
2006
Jane Eyre

as Jane Eyre

2006
Suburban Shootout

as Jewel Diamond

2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Georgina Barrow

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Andorra

as Miss Quay