Ruth Wilson at Olivier Awards - Photos!

Here's a few photos of Ruth looking smashing at the Olivier Awards on Sunday night. If she looks happy its with good reason after winning Best actress for Anna Christie. :)

Sources:

http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/archive/2012/04/16/ruth-wilson-in-first-red-carpet-sighting-of-mcq-at-the-olivier-awards-2012.htm

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/celebritynews/theatre-star-ruth-wilson-thanks-her-harem-of-hunky-men-7647981.html

http://www.catwalkqueen.tv/2012/04/catwalk_to_cele.html

Ruth gets Best Actress at Olivier Awards

Best actress
Ruth Wilson for Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/apr/15/full-list-olivier-award-winners

Guardian article

Looks like Ruth was in the Guardian today (Saturday).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/apr/14/ruth-wilson-olivier-awards-anna-christie?newsfeed=true

In praise of ... Ruth Wilson

The Guardian has a piece called "In praise of ... Ruth Wilson". Oddly enough I agreed with what they have to say.

Theatre critics have been left breathless by the actor's performance in the Donmar production of Anna Christie

It is only six years since she graduated from drama school. But she has established herself on stage, television and film as an outstanding talent in a very talented generation. She has a face that flits from luminous to plain, and a mouth whose long upper lip gives her the mobility of expression she exploits so dangerously. The critics are breathless. Last week in her latest role, as the eponymous Anna Christie in the Donmar production of the Eugene O'Neill play, Ruth Wilson won warm reviews that singled out her "languorous cadences" and her "toughness and vulnerability" – a hint at her ability to convey lightening mood changes without jeopardising the utter authenticity of her character as a woman heartlessly abused but not yet broken. Remarkably, Anna Christie is only her fourth professional stage role: she scored an equal triumph as a woman descending into madness at the Almeida last year in Through a Glass Darkly , and the year before in her debut at the Donmar in A Streetcar Named Desire, where she picked up an Olivier as best supporting actress. On stage, she is easily as powerful as the big names she appears alongside (Jude Law in Anna Christie, Rachel Weisz in Streetcar). She seems to thrive on the complex and the gritty. But as Jane Eyre on the BBC in 2006 she did stillness and gravity along with endurance. She does funny, too: see her first TV role, Suburban Shootout, and watch how today's feisty has its origins in earlier cocky. A courageous, edgy and compelling talent.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/15/in-praise-of-ruth-wilson

Ruth Wilson: 'I'm drawn to damaged characters'

It looks like today's Observer newspaper had an article on Ruth. It includes the welcome news that Luther will be back on our screens in June.

Before Ruth Wilson inhabits a character on stage or screen, she likes to research the role in depth to figure out what makes her tick. Faced with playing Alice Morgan in the cop series Luther (which premiered last year on BBC1 and returns for a second series next month), she watched the Hannibal Lecter films and read the philosopher John Gray's bleak account of human nature, Straw Dogs.

"I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters," Wilson, 29, tells me over coffee at the National theatre. She's not kidding. Alice Morgan is a psychotic physicist who murders her parents at the start of Luther and views human relations in terms of energy transfer and dark matter – although there is more chemistry than physics in her relationship with Idris Elba's eponymous detective, to whom she unexpectedly warms during the first series. "What really excites me is the unknown," Wilson says, "and getting to grips with something you have no idea about."

She's also appearing this summer in a Donmar production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, as a prostitute who embarks on a sea voyage with her estranged father. To prepare for the title role, Wilson travelled to Minnesota, at her own expense, "to get Anna's accent, but also to research the area where she's from. I spent two days digging up information in a library and talking to professors," she says, with the enthusiasm of a history student – which she was, before training as an actor at Lamda. "I felt like a kid in a sweet shop."

Wilson is amiable in conversation – her long, dramatic mouth curves easily into a mischievous smile – but she has had to fight hard for good parts. "My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done." She made her breakthrough playing Jane Eyre in a 2006 BBC mini-series opposite Toby Stephens. Then she was Stella to Rachel Weisz's Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar (winning herself an Olivier). She rubbed shoulders with Ian McKellen on an American TV remake of The Prisoner and her co-star in Anna Christie is Jude Law. Does proximity to so much fame make her head spin? "Not really," she shrugs. "I don't hold much store by it. I end up teasing them a bit."

She concedes that she was excited to work with Idris Elba. "I loved The Wire and I thought: wouldn't it be great to work with Stringer Bell. A year later I was pinching myself." At their first read-through, Elba told her how much he loved her in Jane Eyre and she immediately called his bluff: "You never watched Jane Eyre!" She had "enormous fun" doing Luther, but would like to try something different now. "My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy." Given her versatility, and that mischievous grin, it sounds like an idea worth encouraging.

• Luther returns to BBC1 in early June.

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Daily Telegraph interview - Ruth Wilson: a dame in waiting

The Daily Telegraph has an interview with Ruth Wilson with a subtitle referencing 'those mesmerising eyebrows'. The main focus is on her upcoming play Anna Christie.

On the mantelpiece in Ruth Wilson’s south London flat, alongside an empty bottle of champagne and a black-and-white photograph of her brother in British Army uniform, there is an arrangement of model figures, miniature ones. They appear to be a press scrum, some holding out microphones, others taking photographs, and they are forming a semicircle around an empty space. As if the subject of their attention has simply vanished.

I mean to ask her about them, but she has disappeared herself. That seems to be her way. Not vague exactly − she is known for the intelligence of her theatrical performances − but a little distracted. She talks quickly and describes herself as a bit messy.

“It’s how you prioritise in life. Cleaning isn’t all that interesting to me. I’m disorganised. I do things on a whim.”

You can read the whole interview at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8375864/Ruth-Wilson-a-dame-in-waiting.html

Ruth Wilson to return to Donmar in "Anna Christie"

Ruth Wilson will be returning to the Donmar to start in Anna Christie this summer.

Jude Law has signed up to return to the London stage this summer ­following his triumph in Hamlet for the Donmar in the West End and on Broadway.

The Oscar-nominated actor will star with award-winning Ruth Wilson in American playwright Eugene O’Neill’s ferocious drama Anna Christie, about a battered young woman.

After becoming a prostitute — and being raped by a cousin when she was a teenager — Anna finds redemption and, perhaps, love with Mat, who is described as handsome ‘in a hard, ­defiant way’, and who works as a stoker on a canal barge.

Law will play the powerful, broad-chested Mat opposite Ruth, who won a best-supporting actress Olivier Award for her role as Stella alongside Rachel Weisz’s Blanche in the Donmar ­Theatre’s A Streetcar Named Desire production 18 months ago.

Rob Ashford directed Streetcar and he will also stage Anna Christie at the Donmar, with performances starting on August 4 and an official opening on August 9. The production will have an extended run until October 8.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1346974/Judes-Donmar-dazzler.html?ito=feeds-newsxml