Ruth Negga
Biography
Ruth Negga (born May 4, 1981) is an Ethiopian-Irish actress. For her portrayal of Mildred Loving in the 2016 biographical romantic drama "Loving", Negga received several major nominations from the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards and the Golden Globe Awards, and won the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in the BBC mini-series Criminal Justice, E4's Misfits, and the AMC series Preacher.
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Acting History
2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator
2025Number One on the Call Sheet as Self
2024Cleopatra at the Mall
2024Presumed Innocent as Barbara Sabich
2023Good Grief as Sophie
2022Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici as Self
2021Passing as Clare Kendry
2021Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché as Poly Styrene (voice)
2020Angela's Christmas Wish as Mother
2020Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth as Finn's Mum (voice)
2019Reach for the Stars as Self
2019Ad Astra as Helen Lantos
2018Explained as Narrator (voice)
2017Angela's Christmas as Mother
2016Loving as Mildred Loving
2016Warcraft as Queen Taria Wrynn
2016Preacher as Tulip O'Hare
2015Iona as Iona
2014Of Mind and Music as Jessica
2014Noble as Joan
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2013Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Raina
2013Jimi: All Is by My Side as Ida
2013World War Z as W.H.O. Doctor
2012Secret State as Agnes Evans
2012The Samaritan as Iris
2011Hello Carter as Doctor
2011Shirley as Shirley Bassey
2010The Nativity as Leah
2010Misfits Christmas Special as Nikki
2010National Theatre Live: Hamlet as Ophelia
2010Love/Hate as Rosemary "Rosie" Moynihan
2010Five Daughters as Rochelle
2009Misfits as Nikki
2009National Theatre Live: Phèdre as Aricia
2009Personal Affairs
2009Corduroy as Tess
2008Criminal Justice as Melanie Lloyd
2007Phineas and Ferb as Lieutenant Zarna (voice)
2006Stars as Sophie (voice)
2005Breakfast on Pluto as Charlie
2005Isolation as Mary
2005Colour Me Kubrick as Lolita (uncredited)
2004Love Is The Drug as Lisa Sheerin
2004Capital Letters as Taiwo
1949The Emmy Awards as Self
—Things He Never Said as Rachel
—Monstrous Beauty as Nell Gwyn