
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Down Cemetery Road as Sarah Tucker
2025Urchin as Meditation Tape (voice)
2024A Very Royal Scandal as Emily Maitlis
2024Family
2023An Audience with Kylie as Self
2023The Woman in the Wall as Lorna Brady
2022See How They Run as Petula Spencer
2022True Things as Kate
2021Oslo as Mona Juul
2019His Dark Materials as Mrs Coulter
2018Mrs Wilson as Alison Wilson
2018The Little Stranger as Caroline Ayres
2017Dark River as Alice Bell
2017How to Talk to Girls at Parties as PT Stella
2017Reported Missing as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler
2016I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House as Lily
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015Eleanor as Eleanor
2015Suite Française as Madeleine Labarie
2015Secrets of the Solar System as Narrator
2014The Affair as Alison Bailey
2014Locke as Katrina (voice)
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013Saving Mr. Banks as Margaret Goff
2013The Lone Ranger as Rebecca Reid
2012Anna Karenina as Princess Betsy Tverskoy
2011Ceramics A Fragile History as Narrator (Voice)
2011The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
2010Luther as Alice Morgan
2009Small Island as Queenie
2009The Prisoner as 313
2008The Doctor Who Hears Voices as "Ruth"
2007Capturing Mary as Young Mary
2007A Real Summer as Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
2007Get Off My Land as Woman
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Jane Eyre as Jane Eyre
2006Suburban Shootout as Jewel Diamond
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Georgina Barrow
—The Book of Ruth as Ruth Coker Burks
—Andorra as Miss Quay
—Untitled Luther Sequel as Alice Morgan









