Ruth Gemmell
Biography
Ruth Katrin Gemmell (born October 1967) is a British actress. She is known for portraying the role of Lady Violet Bridgerton in the Netflix period drama series Bridgerton.
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Acting History
2025
Cleaner as Claire Hume
2023Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story as Lady Violet Bridgerton
2021My Mum Tracy Beaker as Carly
2020Bridgerton as Lady Violet Bridgerton
2019Cliffs of Freedom as Varvara Vakrinos
2018Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires as Marie Schiele
2017Ransom as Laurie
2015Home Fires as Sarah Collingborne
2014Penny Dreadful as Octavia Putney
2013Big Girl as Lynn
2013Dancing on the Edge as Lady Winnet
2013Utopia as Jen Dugdale
2013Father Brown as Martha Quinton
2012Offender as Officer Cassie
2012Storage 24 as Sarah
2012Inside Men as Rebecca
2011The Fades as Alice
2010F as Sarah Balham
2009Moving On as Joanne
2008Good as Elisabeth
2008Gone Fishing as Imogen
2008Summerhill as Rose
2007The Imaginary Girl as Mother
2007Lewis as Robyn Strong
2006January 2nd as Claire
2004Doc Martin as Shirley Knott
2004Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me as Carly Beaker
2003The Afternoon Play as Rachel
2002Spooks as Miranda
2002The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Jeannie Waring
2001Waking the Dead as Linda Cummings
2001Waking the Dead as DI Jess Worrall
2001Murder in Mind as Liz Willis
1999The Alchemists as Julia Bannerman
1998The Perfect Blue as Jo
1998Macbeth as Lady Macduff
1997Fever Pitch as Sarah Hughes
1997Midsomer Murders as Diana Carnarvon
1997Midsomer Murders as Anne Merrick
1996Dalziel & Pascoe as Rachel Waller
1995Kavanagh Q.C. as Jenny Norris
1993Peak Practice as Christine Higson
1992A Touch of Frost as Christine Harris
1991Who Needs a Heart as Abigail
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Miss Sweetiman
1986Casualty as Kate Margolin
1984The Bill as Rebecca Sands
1984The Bill as Sue Latham
1984The Bill as Jane Joyce
—Chrysanthemum as Janet