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Ruth Katrin Gemmell (born October 1967) is an English actress. She starred in the film Fever Pitch in 1997 which was followed by supporting roles in television series EastEnders, Casualty, Home Fires and Penny Dreadful.[1] She has played Carly Beaker, the mother of title character in the Tracy Beaker franchise since 2004. In 2020, she began playing Lady Violet Bridgerton in the Netflix series Bridgerton.[2][3]

Ruth Gemmell
Born	Ruth Katrin Gemmell October 1967 (age 54) Bristol, England
Alma mater	Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Ray Stevenson ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2005)​

Early life and education

Ruth Katrin Gemmell was born in October 1967 in Bristol and grew up in County Durham, first in Barnard Castle before moving to Darlington with her mother upon her parents' divorce. She has three brothers. She attended Polam Hall School.[4][5] Gemmell later moved to London where her father lived to pursue acting.[6] She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.[7]

Career

Gemmell has played roles in both theatre and TV dramas. She played the leading female role Fever Pitch, based on Nick Hornby's novel of the same name, starring opposite Colin Firth[8] and had another leading role in the comedy/drama 2 January (2006). She played the recurring character of Detective Constable Kerry Cox in the first series of the BBC police procedural Silent Witness, which premiered in 1996. She returned to the series as different characters in 2006 and 2014.

In 2004 she starred in Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me as the mother of the title character, who abandoned her when she was a baby, leading her to spend life in a children's home. From January 2009 she became a recurring character in EastEnders as Debra Dean, the mother of a teenage girl who, identically to her role in Tracy Beaker's Movie of Me, abandoned her daughter when she was an infant. In August 2009, she starred as Rebecca Sands in two episodes of The Bill.[9]

Gemmell has appeared three times in the BBC's police drama Waking the Dead, playing two different characters. Her first appearance was in 2002 in the episode Special Relationships as DI Jess Worral, a former lover of DSI Boyd. She next appeared in the episode Sins of seventh season in 2008 as Linda Cummings, an exceptionally intelligent serial killer. Gemmell reprised the role of Cummings in Endgame, the fourth episode of the eighth season of the show. The storyline had Cummings manipulating Boyd and revealed that Cummings' accomplice was responsible for the drugs overdose that killed Boyd's son Luke. The role reprisal of Cummings is a first in the show's history. Gemmell starred in Episode 8 of Jimmy McGovern's BBC drama Moving On playing the role of Joanne, in November 2010.[10] In November 2011, Gemmell played Lady Shonagon in the adaptation for BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour of The Pillow Book, by Robert Forrest. She appeared as Jen, the wife of an adulterous civil servant, in Channel 4 drama Utopia, in early 2013.

In 2015, Gemmell appeared in five episodes of the television series Penny Dreadful as Octavia Putney. In 2020, she began playing Lady Violet Bridgerton in the Netflix series Bridgerton.[11][12]

Personal life

Gemmell was married in Westminster, London, in 1997 to actor Ray Stevenson, whom she met in 1995 during the filming of TV drama Band of Gold. The couple divorced in 2005.[13]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1991	Who Needs a Heart	Abigail
1997	Fever Pitch	Sarah Hughes
	The Perfect Blue	Jo
2006	January 2nd	Claire
2008	Good	Elisabeth
2010	F	Sarah Balham
2012	Storage 24	Sarah
	Offender	Cassie
2019	Cliffs of Freedom	Varvara Vakrinos

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	The Bill	Sue Latham	Episode: "Woman of Substance"
	Band of Gold	Gina Dickson	Episode: "Sold"
1996	Kavanagh QC	Jenny Norris	Episode: "Men of Substance"
	Short Sharp Shocks	Kate	Episode: "Everywhere"
	Silent Witness	Kerry Cox	Recurring role (series 1)
1997	Peak Practice	Christine Higson	Episode: "Home Truths"
1998	Macbeth	Lady Macduff	Television film
1999	The Bill	Jane Joyce	Episode: "Sex, Lies and Videotape"
	The Alchemists	Julia Bannerman	Television film
	Four Fathers	Nicola Yallop	3 episodes
2001	Holby City	Diana Calder	Episode: "Extra Time"
2002	Dalziel and Pascoe	Rachel Waller	Episode: "For Love Nor Money"
	Waking the Dead	DI Jess Worrall	2 episodes
2003	The Bill	Carol Evans	3 episodes
	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Jeannie Waring	"Playing for the Ashes"
	Murder in Mind	Liz Willis	Episode: "Landlord"
	Spooks	Miranda	1 episode
2004	Tracy Beaker: The Movie of Me	Carly Beaker	Television film
	Blue Dove	Jenny Page	Miniseries
2005	Midsomer Murders	Anne Merrick	Episode: "The House in the Woods"
2006	The Afternoon Play	Rachel	Episode: "Are You Jim's Wife?"
	A Touch of Frost	Christine Harris	Episode: "Endangered Species"
	Silent Witness	DI Beth Ashdown	Episode: "Terminus: Part 2"
2007	Five Days	Dr Tobolska	3 episodes
2008	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Miss Sweetiman	Episode: "Mrs. McGinty's Dead"
	Summerhill	Rose	Television film
2008–2009	Waking the Dead	Linda Cummings	Guest role (series 7–8)
2009	Trial & Retribution	Kay Satchell	Episode: "Shooter: Part 1"
	Primeval	Katherine Kavanagh	2 episodes
	EastEnders	Debra Dean	11 episodes
	The Bill	Rebecca Sands	2 episodes
2010	Lewis	Robyn Strong	Episode: "Your Sudden Death Question"
	Casualty	Kate Margolin	Episode: "No Place Like Home"
	Law & Order: UK	Mel Garvey	Episode: "Confession"
	Moving On	Joanne	Episode: "Losing My Religion"
2011	The Fades	Alice	TV mini-series
2012	Inside Men	Rebecca	TV mini-series
2013	Father Brown	Martha Quinton	Episode: "The Wrong Shape"
	Dancing on the Edge	Lady Winnet	1 episode
	Holby City	Amanda Layton	2 episodes
	Coming Up	Lynn	Episode: "Big Girl"
2013–2014	Utopia	Jen Dugdale	Recurring role (9 episodes)
2014	Silent Witness	Ellie Brooke	Episode: "Undertone: Parts 1 & 2"
	Inspector George Gently	Irene Seddon	Episode: "Gently Between the Lines"
	Casualty	DC Monica Darling	Episode: "Deadfall"
2015	Midsomer Murders	Diana Carnarvon	Episode: "A Vintage Murder"
	Penny Dreadful	Octavia Putney	Guest role (series 2)
2015–2016	Home Fires	Sarah Collingborne	Main role
2017	Ransom	Laurie	Episode: "Girl on a Train"
2018	Doctors	DCI Gail Hargreaves	2 episodes
2020–present	Bridgerton	Lady Violet Bridgerton	Main role
2021	My Mum Tracy Beaker	Carly Beaker

Theatre

Title	Notes
Betrayal
The Weir
Nabokov's Gloves
The Turn of the Screw
Othello
Measure for Measure
Uncle Vanya
An Ideal Husband
The Winter's Tale
The Second Mrs Tanqueray
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Tale of Two Cities
Death and the Maiden
Coram Boy
Macbeth	Royal Shakespeare Company, 2004–2005
King Lear

Radio

Date	Title	Role	Station	Ref.
2008	The Pillow Book	Shōnagon	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama	[14]
2009	The Pillow Book (series 2)			[15]
2010	The Vanishing	Lieneke	BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play	[16]
2011	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Liz Gold	BBC Radio 4	[17]
2010	The Pillow Book (series 3)	Shōnagon	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama	[18]
2011	The Pillow Book (series 4)			[19]

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Screen Actors Guild Awards	2021	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Bridgerton	Nominated	[20]

References

External links

• Ruth Gemmell at IMDb

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[de] Ruth Gemmell

Ruth Gemmell (* 2. Januar 1967[1] in Bristol[2]) ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

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