
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