is set to explore the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to hang in Britain. The film is a deep dive into the London club manager's life, including her turbulent romance with her abusive lover ...

Hotspur in the BBC film Henry IV, Part I, as Ashley Cowgill in Happy Valley and in the play Miss Julie at the Royal Exchange.

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain ... The case went down in legal annals and was made into a film, Dance With A Stranger, which starred Miranda Richardson. Ellis's son and ...

In just 13 words, Ruth Ellis has ensured her name will soon be ... Some viewers old enough to remember Dance with a Stranger, the 1985 film starring Miranda Richardson as Ruth and Rupert Everett ...

Ruth Ellis photographed in 1954 ... Georgie was omitted from an earlier dramatisation of Ruth's life (1985 feature film Dance with a Stranger). Georgie passed away in 2001, aged 50, after ...

Film-maker Gillian Pachter re-examines the Ruth Ellis case. In July 1955, Ruth was the last woman to be hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover David Blakely. ...British Crime Story. Episode 1.

In 1955, at the age of 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK. Her death, coming after she shot her lover outside a Hampstead pub two months before, sparked a wave ...

Not only did the playboy racing car driver allegedly manipulate his partner Ruth Ellis, he punched her so hard in the stomach she suffered a miscarriage. But she found herself on trial for his ...

Ruth Ellis was the last woman executed in Great Britain; what’s surprising is that her execution happened only 70 years ago, in 1955. In fact, between the time she admitted to killing her lover ...

At age 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the U.K. after she fatally shot her playboy lover, and her controversial conviction is raising questions 70 years later.

In 1955 Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover. In this investigative three-part series film-maker Gillian Pachter re-examines the case.