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.
Awards & recognition
- Theatre World Award · 2015
- Golden Globe Award — Best Actress – Television Series Drama · 2014
- Laurence Olivier Award — Best Actress · 2012
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play · 2015 · nominated
Filmography30 titles
Luther
His Dark Materials
Agatha Christie's Marple
Jane Eyre
Horizon
Saving Mr. Banks
Suite Française
The Graham Norton Show
Mrs. Wilson
Down Cemetery Road
Locke
An Audience with Kylie
The Woman in the Wall
The Affair
Anna Karenina
Urchin
A Very Royal Scandal
Oslo
See How They Run
Capturing Mary
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Lone Ranger
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Little Stranger
The Prisoner
Dark River
True Things
The Jonathan Ross Show
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House