Ruth Negga
Biography
Ruth Negga (born May 4, 1981) is an Ethiopian-Irish actress. For her portrayal of Mildred Loving in the 2016 biographical romantic drama "Loving", Negga received several major nominations from the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards and the Golden Globe Awards, and won the Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in the BBC mini-series Criminal Justice, E4's Misfits, and the AMC series Preacher.
Filmography
The Nativity
2010 · 8.8
Love Is The Drug
2004 · 8.0
Phineas and Ferb
2007 · 7.9
Presumed Innocent
2024 · 7.8
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
2010 · 7.8
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
2009 · 7.8
Criminal Justice
2008 · 7.6
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
2020 · 7.6
Misfits
2009 · 7.6
Love/Hate
2010 · 7.5
Misfits Christmas Special
2010 · 7.5
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013 · 7.5
Preacher
2016 · 7.4
Explained
2018 · 7.4
Stars
2006 · 7.3
Hello Carter
2011 · 7.2
Breakfast on Pluto
2005 · 7.2
Secret State
2012 · 7.1
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025 · 7.0
Things He Never Said
— · 7.0
World War Z
2013 · 6.9
Angela's Christmas
2017 · 6.8
Loving
2016 · 6.7
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
2021 · 6.6
Iona
2015 · 6.5
Shirley
2011 · 6.5
Warcraft
2016 · 6.4
Angela's Christmas Wish
2020 · 6.4
Five Daughters
2010 · 6.4
Noble
2014 · 6.4
Passing
2021 · 6.3
Good Grief
2023 · 6.2
Ad Astra
2019 · 6.1
Colour Me Kubrick
2005 · 5.7
Of Mind and Music
2014 · 5.7
Jimi: All Is by My Side
2013 · 5.6
Isolation
2005 · 5.5
The Samaritan
2012 · 5.4
Personal Affairs
2009 · 4.6
Capital Letters
2004 · 3.7
Bad Major
— · 0.0
Cleopatra at the Mall
2024 · 0.0
Welcome to Port-au-Prince
— · 0.0
Monstrous Beauty
— · 0.0
Corduroy
2009 · 0.0