The actor made her mark in Jane Eyre after leaving college and hasn’t stopped working since. She talks about her role in Philip Pullman’s dark fantasy, her love for the stage – and her fear of commitment
Wilson is speaking by Zoom from Belfast, where she’s filming a six-parter about the, where so-called “fallen women” were confined and enslaved. As she paces about her neutrally furnished rental accommodation, looking for better wifi, it’s like being given a virtual tour by an estate agent – though the only thing that’s conventional about her is the symmetry of her features. When she speaks, she has this charismatic, restless energy; she always has an original take, and puts it in an unusual way.
Ruth Wilson, 40, grew up in Shepperton, in Surrey, with her father, an investment banker, and her mother, a parole officer – “politically really divided”, she says approvingly. “My mum’s a lefty; my dad always voted Tory. Which was great, because you have two sides of the story.” It was a “very privileged, easy upbringing”, with three older brothers, which is why she didn’t especially love her all-girl’s private school, and moved to a regular sixth-form college. “I missed the company of boys.
Some of her most celebrated roles during the 00s were on stage – Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar, Tanya in Gorky’s Philistines at the National – and theatre remains her preference, albeit only just. “It’s your responsibility to tell that story every night, you have that immediate relationship with the audience – there’s nothing like it. For me it’s more exhilarating and collaborative and realistic than a film or TV experience.
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