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.

Filmography

• 2025Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough — Narrator
• 2024Cleopatra at the Mall
• Presumed Innocent — Barbara Sabich
• 2023Good Grief — Sophie
• 2021Passing — Clare Kendry
• 2021Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché — Poly Styrene (voice)
• 2020Angela's Christmas Wish — Mother
• 2020Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth — Finn's Mum (voice)
• 2019Ad Astra — Helen Lantos
• Explained — Narrator (voice)
• 2017Angela's Christmas — Mother (voice)
• 2016Loving — Mildred Loving
• Preacher — Tulip O'Hare
• 2016Warcraft — Queen Taria Wrynn
• 2015Iona — Iona
• 2014Noble — Joan
• 2014Of Mind and Music — Jessica
• 2013Jimi: All Is by My Side — Ida
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Raina
• 2013World War Z — W.H.O. Doctor
• Secret State — Agnes Evans
• 2012The Samaritan — Iris
• 2011Hello Carter — Doctor
• 2011Shirley — Shirley Bassey
• Five Daughters — Rochelle
• Love/Hate — Rosemary "Rosie" Moynihan
• 2010Misfits Christmas Special — Nikki
• 2010National Theatre Live: Hamlet — Ophelia
• The Nativity — Leah
• 2009Corduroy — Tess
• Misfits — Nikki
• 2009National Theatre Live: Phèdre — Aricia
• Personal Affairs — Doris Siddiqi
• Criminal Justice — Melanie Lloyd
• Phineas and Ferb — Lieutenant Zarna (voice)
• 2006Stars — Sophie (voice)
• 2005Breakfast on Pluto — Charlie
• 2005Colour Me Kubrick — Lolita (uncredited)
• 2005Isolation — Mary
• 2004Capital Letters — Taiwo
• Love Is The Drug — Lisa Sheerin
• Bad Major
• Monstrous Beauty — Nell Gwyn
• Things He Never Said — Rachel
• Welcome to Port-au-Prince

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Number One on the Call Sheet — Self
• 2025Together for Palestine — Self
• 2022Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici — Self
• 2019Reach for the Stars — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self