Cast & creator
Ruth Wilson
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Graham Norton Show
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.
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film credits
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television credits
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1964–2026 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (51)
Showing 51 of 51 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Family
Naomi
2026
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
2006
Horizon
Narrator
1964
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
The Affair
Alison Bailey
2014
Agatha Christie's Marple
Georgina Barrow
2004
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
2011
His Dark Materials
Mrs Coulter
2019
Luther
Alice Morgan
2010
The Lone Ranger
Rebecca Reid
2013
Down Cemetery Road
Sarah Trafford
2025
See How They Run
Petula Spencer
2022
The Woman in the Wall
Lorna Brady
2023The Woman in the Wall
Executive Producer
2023
Anna Karenina
Princess Betsy Tverskoy
2012
Locke
Katrina (voice)
2014
Victorian Psycho
Mrs. Pounds
2026
Saving Mr. Banks
Margaret Goff
2013
Mrs Wilson
Alison Wilson
2018Mrs Wilson
Executive Producer
2018
The Prisoner
313
2009
A Very Royal Scandal
Emily Maitlis
2024
Urchin
Meditation Tape (voice)
2025
Small Island
Queenie
2009
Suite Française
Madeleine Labarie
2015
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
PT Stella
2017
Ceramics A Fragile History
Narrator (Voice)
2011
Suburban Shootout
Jewel Diamond
2006
Reported Missing
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017Behind the Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions
Self
2025
The Little Stranger
Caroline Ayres
2018
Oslo
Mona Juul
2021
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Lily
2016
True Things
Kate
2022True Things
Producer
2022
An Audience with Kylie
Self
2023
Freezing
Alison Fennel
2008
Dark River
Alice Bell
2017
Andorra
Miss Quay
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
2017
Get Off My Land
Woman
2007
Capturing Mary
Young Mary
2007
Secrets of the Solar System
Narrator
2015Untitled Luther Sequel
Alice Morgan
The Book of Ruth
Ruth Coker Burks
The Doctor Who Hears Voices
"Ruth"
2008
A Real Summer
Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
2007
Eleanor
Eleanor
2015