Ruth Wilson to Star in Upcoming Masterpiece Drama ‘Mrs. Wilson’

Luther star Ruth Wilson will return to Masterpiece in a very personal sort of three-part drama – one based on her own grandmother’s memoir about her life and their complicated family history.

Set in 1940s and 1960s London and 1930s India, the series follows Alison Wilson, who thinks she is happily married until her husband, Alec, dies and a woman turns up on the doorstep claiming that she is the real Mrs. Wilson. Alison is determined to prove the validity of her own marriage – and Alec’s love for her – but is instead led into a world of disturbing secrets.

“I am so excited to bring to the small screen the extraordinary lives of my grandparents,” Wilson said in a statement. “Theirs is a profoundly moving story.”