Acting credits
44
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Ruth Wilson
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.8
Moderate attention
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Movies: 23Series: 21Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 47720
IMDb ID: nm2235721
Known for: Acting
Born: January 13, 1982
Age: 44
Place of birth: Ashford, Surrey, England
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1964 - 2026
Years active: 63
Average TMDB rating: 6.55
Wikidata: Q262679
Other jobs
Executive Producer (2)Producer (1)
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).
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Ruth Wilson.
Nov 11
Victorian Psycho
as Mrs. Pounds
2026 Movie
Family
as Naomi
2026 Movie
Urchin
as Meditation Tape (voice)
2025 Movie
An Audience with Kylie
as Self
2023 Movie
See How They Run
as Petula Spencer
2022 Movie
True Things
as Kate
2022 Movie
Oslo
as Mona Juul
2021 Movie
The Little Stranger
as Caroline Ayres
2018 Movie
Dark River
as Alice Bell
2017 Movie
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
as PT Stella
2017 Movie
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
2017 Movie
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
as Lily
2016 Movie
Eleanor
as Eleanor
2015 Movie
Suite Française
as Madeleine Labarie
2015 Movie
Secrets of the Solar System
as Narrator
2015 Movie
Locke
as Katrina (voice)
2014 Movie
Saving Mr. Banks
as Margaret Goff
2013 Movie
The Lone Ranger
as Rebecca Reid
2013 Movie
Anna Karenina
as Princess Betsy Tverskoy
2012 Movie
Capturing Mary
as Young Mary
2007 Movie
A Real Summer
as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
2007 Movie
Get Off My Land
as Woman
2007 Movie
Andorra
as Miss Quay
Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Ruth Wilson.
Down Cemetery Road
as Sarah Trafford • 8 eps
2025 Series
A Very Royal Scandal
as Emily Maitlis • 3 eps
2024 Series
The Woman in the Wall
as Lorna Brady • 6 eps
2023 Series
His Dark Materials
as Mrs Coulter • 23 eps
2019 Series
Mrs Wilson
as Alison Wilson • 3 eps
2018 Series
Reported Missing
as Self - Narrator (voice) • 3 eps
2017 Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
The Affair
as Alison Bailey • 42 eps
2014 Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
Ceramics A Fragile History
as Narrator (Voice) • 3 eps
2011 Series
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self • 1 eps
2011 Series
Luther
as Alice Morgan • 13 eps
2010 Series
Small Island
as Queenie • 2 eps
2009 Series
The Prisoner
as 313 • 6 eps
2009 Series
Freezing
as Alison Fennel • 1 eps
2008 Series
The Graham Norton Show
as Self • 2 eps
2007 Series
Jane Eyre
as Jane Eyre • 4 eps
2006 Series
Suburban Shootout
as Jewel Diamond • 14 eps
2006 Series
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Georgina Barrow • 1 eps
2004 Series
Horizon
as Narrator • 1 eps
1964 Series