Ruth Wilson
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
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Graham Norton Show
Horizon
Agatha Christie's Marple
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
His Dark Materials
The Affair
All Movies (26)
- Victorian Psycho2026 · as Mrs. Pounds
- Urchin2025 · as Meditation Tape (voice)
- Family2024
- An Audience with Kylie2023 · as Self
- See How They Run2022 · as Petula Spencer
- True Things2022 · as Kate
- Oslo2021 · as Mona Juul
- The Little Stranger2018 · as Caroline Ayres
- Dark River2017 · as Alice Bell
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties2017 · as PT Stella
- National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler2017 · as Hedda Gabler
- I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House2016 · as Lily
- Eleanor2015 · as Eleanor
- Suite Française2015 · as Madeleine Labarie
- Secrets of the Solar System2015 · as Narrator
- Locke2014 · as Katrina (voice)
- Saving Mr. Banks2013 · as Margaret Goff
- The Lone Ranger2013 · as Rebecca Reid
- Anna Karenina2012 · as Princess Betsy Tverskoy
- The Doctor Who Hears Voices2008 · as "Ruth"
- Capturing Mary2007 · as Young Mary
- A Real Summer2007 · as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
- Get Off My Land2007 · as Woman
- Andorra— · as Miss Quay
- The Book of Ruth— · as Ruth Coker Burks
- Untitled Luther Sequel— · as Alice Morgan
All TV Shows (21)
- Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions2026 · as Herself
- Down Cemetery Road2025 · as Sarah Trafford
- A Very Royal Scandal2024 · as Emily Maitlis
- The Woman in the Wall2023 · as Lorna Brady
- His Dark Materials2019 · as Mrs Coulter
- Mrs Wilson2018 · as Alison Wilson
- Reported Missing2017 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
- The Affair2014 · as Alison Bailey
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
- Ceramics A Fragile History2011 · as Narrator (Voice)
- The Jonathan Ross Show2011 · as Self
- Luther2010 · as Alice Morgan
- Small Island2009 · as Queenie
- The Prisoner2009 · as 313
- The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
- Jane Eyre2006 · as Jane Eyre
- Suburban Shootout2006 · as Jewel Diamond
- Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Georgina Barrow
- Horizon1964 · as Narrator