Nicola Walker (born 15 May 1970) is an English actress, known for her starring roles in various British television programmes from the 1990s onwards, including that of Ruth Evershed in the spy drama Spooks from 2003 to 2011. She has also worked in theatre, radio and film.

Filmography

• Alice and Steve — Alice
• Forensics: Murder Scene — Narrator
• Mary & George — Lady Hatton
• The Titan Sub Disaster: Minute by Minute — Narrator
• Marriage — Emma
• 2022National Theatre Live: The Corn Is Green — Miss Moffat
• No Place Like Home — Narrator
• Annika — DI Annika Strandhed
• 2019One Red Nose Day and a Wedding — Frightful Folk Duo
• Collateral — Jane Oliver
• The Split — Hannah Sterne
• 2016The Circuit — Marty
• 2015National Theatre Live: A View from the Bridge — Beatrice
• River — Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson
• Unforgotten — DCI Cassie Stuart
• Babylon — Assistant Commissioner Sharon Franklin
• Inside No. 9 — Harriet
• 2014Second Coming — Counsellor
• Heading Out — Justine
• A Mother's Son — DC Sue Upton
• Inside Men — Kirsty Coniston
• Last Tango in Halifax — Gillian
• 2012National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Judy
• Prisoners' Wives — DCI Jo Fontaine
• Scott & Bailey — Helen Bartlett
• Luther — Linda Shand
• Being Human — Wendy
• Law & Order: UK — Daniela Renzo
• 2009The Turn of the Screw — Carla
• Oliver Twist — Old Sally
• Torn — Joanna Taylor
• 2006Shooting Dogs — Rachel
• Broken News — Katie Willard
• New Tricks — Helen Hadley
• 2004Thunderbirds — Panhead's Mother
• Red Cap — Maj. Rebecca Garton
• Spooks — Ruth Evershed
• 2000Shiner — Det. Sgt. Garland
• 2000The Blue Summer
• People Like Us — Helen Meredith
• The Last Train — Harriet Ambrose
• A Dance to the Music of Time — Gypsy Jones
• Chalk — Suzy Travis
• Jonathan Creek — WPC Fay Radnor
• Touching Evil — DI Susan Taylor
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Abbie Hallingsworth
• 1996The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders — Lucy Diver
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders — Lucy Diver
• Faith — Sally Grace
• 1994Four Weddings and a Funeral — Frightful Folk Duo - Wedding One
• 1994Milner — Colette Brustein
• Pie in the Sky — Carol
• Horizon — Narrator

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2026Artemis: To the Moon and Back — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Forensics: Murder Case — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Cold Case Forensics — Self - Narrator
• 2023The Gold: The Inside Story — Self - Narrator (voice)