Ruth Wilson
Acting
Born: 1982-01-13 · Ashford, Surrey, England
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
🎬 Movies (20)
Victorian Psycho
2026
Mrs. Pounds
Urchin
2025
Meditation Tape (voice)
Family
2024
An Audience with Kylie
2023
Self
See How They Run
2022
Petula Spencer
True Things
2022
Kate
Oslo
2021
Mona Juul
The Little Stranger
2018
Caroline Ayres
Dark River
2017
Alice Bell
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017
PT Stella
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
2017
Hedda Gabler
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
2016
Lily
Eleanor
2015
Eleanor
Suite Française
2015
Madeleine Labarie
Secrets of the Solar System
2015
Narrator
Locke
2014
Katrina (voice)
Saving Mr. Banks
2013
Margaret Goff
The Lone Ranger
2013
Rebecca Reid
Anna Karenina
2012
Princess Betsy Tverskoy
The Doctor Who Hears Voices
2008
"Ruth"
📺 TV Shows (20)
Behind The Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
2026
Herself
Down Cemetery Road
2025
Sarah Trafford
A Very Royal Scandal
2024
Emily Maitlis
The Woman in the Wall
2023
Lorna Brady
His Dark Materials
2019
Mrs Coulter
Mrs Wilson
2018
Alison Wilson
Reported Missing
2017
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Self
The Affair
2014
Alison Bailey
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Self
Ceramics A Fragile History
2011
Narrator (Voice)
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Self
Luther
2010
Alice Morgan
Small Island
2009
Queenie
The Prisoner
2009
313
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Self
Jane Eyre
2006
Jane Eyre
Suburban Shootout
2006
Jewel Diamond
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Georgina Barrow