Ruth Sheen
Popularity:1.086
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1952-01-01
Place of Birth:London, England, UK
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Also Known As:روث شین

Vera Drake (2004)
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.

All or Nothing (2002)
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...

Bait (2000)
A single father prepares for a job interview while his young son, Clint, prepares sandwiches for their lunch. When he goes for the interview, Clint...

Another Year (2010)
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

Heartless (2010)
The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeling isolated and fearful, hiding from the world...

The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995)
Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a...

High Hopes (1989)
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's...

Fanny Hill (2007)
Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Davies's offer to join the London 'working girls'...

Clubland (1991)
Sylvie, a Belgian girl living in London, arrives at her local police station. She starts to tell how she was picked up in a nightclub by the handsome...

Cyrano (2021)
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But,...

The English Harem (2005)
Tracy a young working class girl, who - against the wishes of her parents and racist ex-boyfriend - becomes one of three wives of West London Persian...

A Class Apart (2007)
An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover...

The After (2024)
After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.

A Fatal Inversion (1992)
Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to...

Sweetly It Turns (2023)
A kitchen-sink drama following the lives of a working-class family in Wolverhampton as they deal with change and the passing of time.

Touch (2024)
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what...

Sin Bin (1994)
A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.

Different for Girls (1996)
Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up...

Mr. Turner (2014)
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...

A Royal Night Out (2015)
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in...

Lorna Doone (2001)
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the...

Night Voice (1990)
Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a...

Ghostwatch (1992)
For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky...

SuperBob (2015)
After six years without a date, Robert, the world's only superhero, is looking for love. The only barrier to his plan is that he regularly has to...

Footprints in the Snow (2005)
Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her...

The Hardest Part (2010)
An aging actor finally secures the audition of a lifetime. But just how badly does he want the role?

Brave Young Men (2009)
Owen and Jamie are a pair of nobodies who prevent global disasters with the help of a time-transient civil servant.

Virtual Sexuality (1999)
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.

The One and Only Mike Leigh (2014)
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about...

Secrets & Lies (1996)
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to...

Imagine Me & You (2006)
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when...

Welcome to the Punch (2013)
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's...

A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

When Pigs Fly (1993)
The ghosts of a middle-aged woman and a precocious little girl help an unwed jazz musician and a bar dancer reverse their bad fortune.

VS. (2018)
VS. is an urban rites of passage drama set in the hostile and exciting UK rap battle scene.

Little Dorrit (1987)
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young...

Cheeky (2003)
Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a...

Vanity Fair (2004)
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a...

Hush Your Mouth (2007)
A young man is killed for trying to stop what he sees as evil and his friends seen as fun. Whilst his sister starts an unwitting relationship with...

Plain Jane (2002)
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.

The Angry Earth (1989)
About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old...

Don Quixote (2000)
Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a...

The Bill (1984)
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

Vital Signs (2006)
Vital Signs is a British television drama series airing on ITV from 2006. It stars Tamzin Outhwaite as a supermarket check-out operator who decides...

It's a Sin (2021)
A chronicle of five friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling (1997)
Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of the charming Tom.

Silent Witness (1996)
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

The Nevers (2021)
In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal...

Bramwell (1995)
The story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has with her friends, her colleagues...

Fanny Hill (2007)
Two-part TV drama based on the novel by John Cleland. Set in the 18th century, the story of a young country girl who through financial neccessity...

Inside No. 9 (2014)
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

Unforgotten (2015)
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.

Misfits (2009)
When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.

Cracker (1993)
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

Hijack (2023)
When Flight KA29 is hijacked during its seven-hour journey from Dubai to London, Sam Nelson—an accomplished corporate negotiator—tries...

Peak Practice (1993)
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the...

Casualty (1986)
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells (2001)
On a night in London in 1946, newspaper reporter Ellen McGillivray arrives at the home of legendary literary figure, Herbert George Wells. Expecting...

Lorna Doone (2000)
Passionate love story set in 17th century rural England, charting the young John Ridd's search for revenge after his father's murder, and the chance...

Cracker (1993)
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

Holding On (1997)
The interaction between a diverse range of characters—including a bulimic restaurant critic and a highly strung tax inspector—in...

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (2005)
A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses.

Never Never (2000)
John Parlour and Jo Weller form a credit union but John's predatory lending scheme threatens both the poor residents of a London council estate and...

The Woman in White (2018)
The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in...

Berkeley Square (1998)
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy...

Call the Midwife (2012)
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling...

A Class Apart (2007)
A working class single mother appeals to send her son to the best state school in her area. When the headmaster of a local private school hears of...

Brassic (2019)
A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and...

Strike (2017)
A war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and...

Midsomer Murders (1997)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

Prime Suspect 1973 (2017)
Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being...

Accused (2010)
How certain people end up being accused of a crime.