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Ruth Negga

Actress / Stage Actress | * 05/04/1982 (41) | Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
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Ruth Negga ( NAY-gə; born 4 May 1981) is an Irish actress known for her roles in the AMC television series Preacher (2016–2019) and the film Loving (2016). For her portrayal of Mildred Loving in the latter, Negga received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. For her Broadway debut as Lady Macbeth in a production of Shakespeare's Macbeth in 2022, she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Negga has also appeared in the films Isolation (2005), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), Warcraft (2016), Ad Astra (2019) and Passing (2021). Other television projects include the BBC mini-series Criminal Justice (2008–2019), RTÉ's ()
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Ruth Negga (born 1982) 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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Music

Known for these Movies & Shows

In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white. ...

Passing

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2021 | 3.2/5 | 1h 38min
Drama
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The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme ...

Loving

FSK: 6+ years

2016 | 3.4/5 | 2h 3min
Drama, Romance / Love
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In the 1970s, a foundling lass, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her transgender nature is beyond the town ...

Breakfast on Pluto

FSK: 12+ years

2005 | 3.6/5 | 2h 8min
Drama, Comedy
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Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the g ...

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

FSK: 16+ years

2013 | 3.7/5 | 43min per episode
Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
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Awards & Nominations for Ruth Negga

Okayafrica 100 Women Ian Charleson Awards Academy Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Ruth Negga as Actress(25)

2024 Good Grief
as Clare Kendry2021 Passing
as Poly Styrene (voice)2021 Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
as Mother2020 Angela's Christmas Wish
as Finn's Mum (voice)2020 Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
as Helen Lantos2019 Ad Astra
as Mother2017 Angela's Christmas
as Lady Taria Wrynn2016 Warcraft
as Mildred Loving2016 Loving
as Iona2015 Iona
as Jessica2014 Of Mind and Music
as Joan2014 Noble
as Ida2013 Jimi: All Is by My Side
as W.H.O. Doctor2013 World War Z
as Iris2012 The Samaritan
as Doctor2011 Hello Carter
as Shirley Bassey2011 Shirley
as Ophelia2010 National Theatre Live: Hamlet
as Tess2009 Corduroy
as Aricia2009 National Theatre Live: Phèdre
as Sophie (voice)2006 Stars
as Charlie2005 Breakfast on Pluto
as Mary2005 Isolation
as Lolita (uncredited)2005 Colour Me Kubrick
as Taiwo2004 Capital Letters

TV Shows/Series with Ruth Negga as Actress(11)

as Barbara Sabich2024 Presumed Innocent
as Narrator (voice)2018 Explained
as Tulip O'Hare2016 Preacher
as Raina2013 Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
as Agnes Evans2012 Secret State
as Leah2010 The Nativity
as Rosemary "Rosie" Moynihan2010 Love/Hate
as Rochelle2010 Five Daughters
2009 Personal Affairs
as Nikki2009 Misfits
as Lisa Sheerin2004 Love Is The Drug

Additional Information

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Citizenships: Ethiopia, Ireland
Born: Tuesday, 05/04 1982 (May) in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) (current age: 41 years + 351 days)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Trinity College Dublin, British American Drama Academy
Other names for Ruth Negga (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"루스 네가"
Ruth Negga frequently works together with these people:
Sam Catlin (6x, Crew)
Patton Oswalt (5x, Actor)
Brad Pitt (4x, Actor)
Joss Whedon (4x, Crew)
Kyle MacLachlan (4x, Actor)
Dominic Cooper (4x, Actor)
Evan Goldberg (4x, Crew)
Nicholas Hytner (4x, Crew)
Damien O'Connor (4x, Crew)
Celeste Bell (4x, Cast)
Jed Whedon (4x, Crew)
Dan Levy (4x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:6461, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/11/2024