Ruth Wilson

[Yohji]

Celebrities Visit "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert"
31 Oct 2016 - Ed Sullivan Theater - New York, New York United States

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[Rose n Toast]

Unsure about the gown on the previous page, but that's a great look walking to the talk show.

 

[Yohji]

Marie Claire UK December 2016: Ruth Wilson by Drew Wheeler

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Have you met our brilliant December issue cover star?

Enchanting on stage, compelling on screen, and equally intriguing in real life, Ruth Wilson is Marie Claire's December issue cover star

Marie Claire‘s December issue cover star is * drumroll please * the brilliant Ruth Wilson.

We’ve been fans of the British actress ever since her 2006 small screen debut in the BBC’s Jane Eyre. Since then she’s flexed her acting muscle in everything from big budget crime dramas (Luther) to theatre (including an already-sold out production of Hedda Gabler which starts at the National Theatre in December).

But arguably her most talked-about role to date is as Alison Bailey in The Affair, a role that has won her critical acclaim as well as a Golden Globe for Best Actress.

Meeting writer Jane Mulkerrins for coffee in New York, Wilson said the sheer intensity of the show almost wiped her out. ‘The first season was relentless and draining. I’m not someone who can ever do something half-arsed, but at points, I did think, “Oh my god I can’t go any deeper.” I didn’t know if I could sustain it.’

Wilson also discussed battling stage fright in a recent Broadway production of Constellations opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. ‘It was like a boxing ring – the fear was so great each night’ she said. ‘We’d stand there, on opposite sides of the stage, and [I’d] just breathe and pray I’d get through it. That fear is so exhilarating – it is such a high that you get.’

Though she has remained very private about her relationship status, Wilson added that a big white wedding definitely isn’t her bag. ‘I hate the thought of walking down the aisle in a white dress – I think it’s just a horrible idea. And I’m just not that excited by the idea of a wedding day, or of a ring on my finger’ she says, ‘I’m not even interested in jewellery.’

Interview Magazine November 2016.

By John Cameron Mitchell
Photography STAS KOMAROVSKI

Ruth Wilson knows her way around a maddening heroine. Witness her absorbing command of the psychopathic murderer Alice Morgan, an adversary and confidant of Idris Elba's titular detective on the BBC crime procedural Luther, and then, too, her role in the steamy he-said-she-said Showtime drama The Affair, for which she nabbed a Golden Globe last year.

Not that this command for playing beguiling and beguiled characters in premium drama is entirely new. Since her auspicious early performance as Jane Eyre in the BBC's 2006 television adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë classic, the British actress has amassed a body of work steeped in prestige. She's earned two Olivier Awards for her time on the London stage (in the title role of the Donmar Warehouse's 2011 production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, alongside Jude Law, and as Stella in the Donmar's restaging of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, in 2009) and a Tony nomination for the Broadway run of the romance Constellations opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, where she played a socially awkward quantum physicist. Breakthrough film roles came in The Lone Ranger (2013), across from Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, in Suite Française (2015), and in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina (2012).

This month Wilson, 34, returns as Alison Bailey, a conflicted waitress turned restaurateur caught between her ex-husband (Joshua Jackson) and her flame and now husband (The Wire's Dominic West) for The Affair's third season. But as she tells her friend, the writer, director, and performer John Cameron Mitchell, much more is to come. She's gearing up for the December debut of a modern version of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, in which she takes on the revolutionary part, directed by Ivo van Hove, at the National Theatre, and she's awaiting the release of Clio Barnard's Dark River and Mitchell's How to Talk to Girls at Parties, in which she stars as a cannibalistic alien with a penchant for latex. Mitchell called up Wilson from San Francisco in September to talk about her menagerie of leading ladies, playing tough, and getting your hands dirty.

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[Yohji]

Ruth Wilson attends The London Evening Standard Theatre Awards at The Old Vic Theatre on November 13, 2016 in London, England.

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[HeatherAnne]

Dreamy in that Erdem dress

 

[jexxica]

Ruth Wilson attends the Christian Dior show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2017/2018 at Musee Rodin on March 3, 2017 in Paris, France.

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[kissmesweet]

That's actually a pretty fabulous look!

 

[jexxica]

Ruth Wilson attends the Olivier Awards nominations celebration on March 10, 2017 in London, United Kingdom.

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[HeatherAnne]

^ I like the idea of that look, but the execution doesn't quite get there.

 

[jexxica]

English actress Ruth Wilson poses on the red carpet upon arrival to attend the 2017 Laurence Olivier Awards in London on April 9, 2017.

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[Benn98]

^ I like the idea of that look, but the execution doesn't quite get there.

Agreed, I think for starters she should ditch the belt. And while I know she's a big fan of strappy stilettos maybe this time she needed a more bulkier shoe. The belt looks like a last minute addition to match the colour of the shoes.

The look she's wearing as she's arriving at Colbert's show is a winner! Flawless, cannot fault one bit.

 

[Yohji]

I've noticed a trend with her, Sarah Jessica Parker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kerry Washington and Thandie Newton. Ever since they hired Erin Walsh as a stylist, their red carpet looks went downhill spectacularly. How does this woman have a job?

Where are the badass Erdem and Christopher Kane looks?

 

[Yohji]

2017 Tribeca Film Festival - Chanel Artists Dinner
24 Apr 2017 - Balthazar - New York, New York United States

Actress Ruth Wilson attends the jury welcome lunch at Tribeca Grill Loft on April 20, 2017 in New York City.

Actress Ruth Wilson attends the Into Film Awards on March 14, 2017 in London, United Kingdom.

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[Benn98]

Woah, that Chanel look is awful, sorry! I prefer the animal print dress but without the printed belt (makes no sense). It's essentially nothing new, just another shirtdress in a different colour and pattern.

 

[Nymphaea]

The Edit by Net-A-Porter
May 4, 2017

A Single Mind
Model Ruth Wilson
Photographer Boo George
Styling Cathy Kasterine

Outspoken, determined and utterly compelling: when Ruth Wilson talks, you listen. The star of The Affair discusses sex, being on stage and celebrating women of uniqueness with Ajesh Patalay.

“I go where I can find interesting, complicated, brilliant women,” says Ruth Wilson, who has played her share of them on stage and screen, including grief-stricken waitress Alison in Showtime’s The Affair.

But she isn’t just talking about the fictional kind. Like many people right now, Wilson is rooting for strong women everywhere. “In the last few years,” she says, “it’s been encouraging to hear more female voices speaking out about things that have been entrenched behavior for a long time. There’s been an opportunity for women to say ‘no’, in a very loud way, to say it’s not acceptable any more.

“And we’ve got Angela Merkel, Theresa May, Nicola Sturgeon – all these amazing women in positions of power [who] got there through talent, hard work and audacity. It’s really inspirational. They’re women of uniqueness. Just seeing them owning it… It’s tumultuous.”

Believe it or not, two minutes previously, we had been talking about trousers. “I like tailoring; I love a bit of trouser,” Wilson had said approvingly of her clothing rail for The Edit’s shoot, sitting down for tea at the Mondrian hotel in London. Then, boom, female empowerment. How did that happen? Well, the actress had just been discussing it with James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, who was leaving the table as I arrived, so the topic was front of mind. “I was talking to Barbara about how we should celebrate uniqueness, certainly [among] women, rather than [making them] conform to what everyone else is,” says Wilson. “Being an actress, people want to put you in a box, to fit the mold, to wear the same outfits. It’s hard to stand out.”

This 35-year-old Brit has, however, managed to do precisely that, inhabiting a restless, often dangerous allure in roles that have won her awards, acclaim, and a cult following for her breakout performance as sociopath Alice in Bbc’s Luther – a character, says Wilson, “so delicious, baddy and fun, with language like Hannibal Lecter’s”, that it continues to set the bar for the parts she chooses.

The latest role to meet that criteria has been Hedda Gabler, in the critically lauded, Ivo van Hove-directed production at London’s National Theatre. Taking on Henrik Ibsen’s protofeminist heroine stirred up a lot in Wilson. “When we performed during the Women’s March, it felt electric,” she recalls. “It was a special day. If I wasn’t [on stage], I would have marched. Then I thought, what we’re doing on stage feels incredibly pertinent. At the end [of the performance], I said, ‘Thousands of people are protesting across the globe today. This play was written 125 years ago and it feels as relevant as ever.’” It fed her ambition to do work that resonates. “There’s a responsibility as an actress to reflect women properly. That’s important.”

Growing up in Surrey, the younger sister to three rugby-playing brothers, Wilson talks of being “a very emotional kid” who used to “throw myself around the room to music, expressively dancing”. But she always had a strong sense of civic duty. “When I was about 10 years old at junior school, there was no sex education. I think my parents gave me a book about sex, which I took to school, and that was it. I remember talking to my dad, who was chairman of the governors, saying we needed sex education. I just had the feeling that I should know this stuff and they should teach it. I have been pursuing little fights [like that] all my life.”

As a young actress, she had the same instincts. “About eight years ago, I was newly into the industry and I wanted to set up a festival for short films, written and directed by women,” she says. “I wanted to improve the situation, to get more voices and allow women to express themselves.” Sadly, her plans floundered. “I was a bit naive. I didn’t know many people and didn’t have weight behind me. Maybe I could do it now.”

She’s learned to pick her battles. In The Affair’s first season, for instance, for which she won a Golden Globe, Wilson says she really defined the character of Alison. “She suffered a major grief,” she explains. “It was important to serve that properly, to try to understand what it’s like to lose a child, so I was intent that that [grief] was going to shape who she is. It can’t just be said early on and forgotten. Since then, the show has become more plot-driven.” I ask how much control she has over her character’s arc. “You don’t have much,” she admits.

She’d love more scenes with the show’s other female lead, Maura Tierney, but that relationship – between the ex-wife and second wife of the male lead (Dominic West) – hasn’t been explored much. “I love playing with Maura, because she’s funny, brilliant and surprising. But last season, we had one scene [together],” says Wilson. “It’s sort of outrageous. I think there is a lot to excavate in that [relationship]. They could get on really well, you don’t know.”

When it comes to The Affair’s sex scenes, of which there are plenty, she says you have to trust your instinct about what you feel is right and wrong in the moment. “It’s hard because there is so much pressure, including on yourself. But there are times when I have to say, I’m not happy doing that anymore. It’s about understanding and trusting yourself, then standing up for yourself.”

You sense being a jobbing actress in Hollywood, let alone one as bullish as Wilson, can be isolating. “I don’t really have anyone,” she says, when I ask who she turns to for advice. “I don’t have a mentor; I don’t hang out with actors. My dad is great; I phone him up and he says, ‘Don’t do anything you don’t need to.’ But no one in my family has [acted], so I’ve had to carve my own path.

“Plus, being an actress is such a transient job. My friends from university have straightforward lives. I keep thinking I wish [I had that], then think I can’t bear the idea of a ‘normal’ life. Some girls imagine what their wedding will be like, how many kids they’ll have – that didn’t seem interesting to me. My parents are happily married, so I see the value in it, but I’m not sure I could live like they live. I’ve learned to be better on my own because I’m on my own a lot.”

With Hedda Gabler over and the new season of The Affair not shooting until August, Wilson is looking forward to indulging other passions. Like furnishing her new flat in London’s Southwark (“I’m looking at Pinterest a lot”) and traveling (“Maybe Japan, Burma. I want to get inspired again”). Most of all, she’s itching to collaborate with people from other disciplines: dancers, musicians, artists.

“That’s where you learn a lot,” she says, lighting up, “when you’re out of your comfort zone. No airs or graces, no one getting you coffee every two minutes. Back to using your brain and your creativity, scrabbling around the floor, devising something.” Back to throwing herself around the room to music, like that little girl in Surrey, having the time of her life.
See Wilson next in How to Talk to Girls at Parties this fall. Season 4 of The Affair will return on Showtime.

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[Yohji]

It just gets worse.

Doutzen Kroes And Lucy Yeomans Co-Host Dinner In Honour Of Save The Elephants
12 Jun 2017 - The Orangery - London United Kingdom

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[Benn98]

It's now purely a mattering of throwing some stuff together, there's no longer any thought going into it. The dress on it's own can work, not with that jacket nor shoes.

 

[Yohji]

Ruth Wilson attends the LAMDA (London academy of music & dramatic art) Royal Gala at LAMDA on June 14, 2017 in London, England.

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[Benn98]

Such a cool and effortless look. Love the pairing, coupled with that hairstyle. I don't like the piping on the side, and she should have gone for black shoes instead of that weird colour. Still, much of an improvement.

 

[Yohji]

Ruth Wilson attends day eight of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 11, 2017 in London, United Kingdom.

Wimbledon style: Ruth Wilson put together the perfect summer look for changeable weather layering a sleek blazer over her breezy patterned Ralph Lauren dress.

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