Ruth Madeley
Acting
Biography
Ruth Madeley (born 4 August 1987) is a British actress known for her roles in Years and Years, The Rook and Doctor Who. She was born with spina bifida and has worked with the charity Whizz-Kidz for much of her life. She was nominated for a television BAFTA in 2016 for her work in Don't Take My Baby. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ruth Madeley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: August 4, 1987
Place of Birth: Westhoughton, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Known For
Brassic
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.
Verisimilitude
A struggling disabled actress gets a job advising a film star how to be disabled for his latest role.
Outnumbered - Christmas Special 2016
The Brockman family are on a special mission at Christmas time.
Years and Years
As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
The Long Shadow
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
Blankety Blank
Bradley Walsh presents the triumphant return of Britain's blank-iest game show. Can he control his celebrity panel and help contestants win the coveted cheque book and pen?
The Cleaner
After CSI have done their stuff, the cleaner mops up the grisly remains. For Wicky, a bloodbath and the pub is all in a day's work.
Joy
A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.
Then Barbara Met Alan
The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving force behind an unprecedented campaign of direct action that ultimately led to the passing of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act.
Nightsleeper
Set on a sleeper train traveling from Glasgow to London, a government agency desperately tries to intervene in the rapidly-escalating events onboard. Can two people who've never met, one on the train and one not, work together to save the lives of its disparate group of passengers as the Heart of Britain service hurtles towards what might quite literally be its final destination?
Filmography
as Shirley Bingham
as Maggie
as Chrissy Doolan
as Shirley Bingham
as Self - Guest
as WPC Judy Womack
as Jenny
as Barbara Lisicki
as Ruth Betteridge
as Self - Panellist
as Helena
as Self - Contestant
as Throat
as Bella
as Laura
as Clara Marie
as Rosie Lyons
as Self - Contestant
as Self - Participant
as Janine
as Self