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.

Filmography

• 2026Family — Naomi
• 2026Victorian Psycho — Mrs. Pounds
• Down Cemetery Road — Sarah Trafford
• 2025Urchin — Meditation Tape (voice)
• A Very Royal Scandal — Emily Maitlis
• The Woman in the Wall — Lorna Brady, Executive Producer
• 2022See How They Run — Petula Spencer
• 2022True Things — Kate, Producer
• 2021Oslo — Mona Juul
• His Dark Materials — Mrs Coulter
• Mrs Wilson — Alison Wilson, Executive Producer
• 2018The Little Stranger — Caroline Ayres
• 2017Dark River — Alice Bell
• 2017How to Talk to Girls at Parties — PT Stella
• 2017National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler — Hedda Gabler
• 2016I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House — Lily
• 2015Eleanor — Eleanor
• 2015Secrets of the Solar System — Narrator
• 2015Suite Française — Madeleine Labarie
• 2014Locke — Katrina (voice)
• The Affair — Alison Bailey
• 2013Saving Mr. Banks — Margaret Goff
• 2013The Lone Ranger — Rebecca Reid
• 2012Anna Karenina — Princess Betsy Tverskoy
• Ceramics A Fragile History — Narrator (Voice)
• Luther — Alice Morgan
• Small Island — Queenie
• The Prisoner — 313
• Freezing — Alison Fennel
• 2008The Doctor Who Hears Voices — "Ruth"
• 2007A Real Summer — Mary Gilbert / Geraldine
• 2007Capturing Mary — Young Mary
• 2007Get Off My Land — Woman
• Jane Eyre — Jane Eyre
• Suburban Shootout — Jewel Diamond
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Georgina Barrow
• Horizon — Narrator
• Andorra — Miss Quay
• The Book of Ruth — Ruth Coker Burks
• Untitled Luther Sequel — Alice Morgan

Appearances as themselves (8)

• Behind the Mic: The Making of The Harry Potter Full-Cast Audio Editions — Self
• 2023An Audience with Kylie — Self
• Reported Missing — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• The Jonathan Ross Show — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self