Lucy Boynton will star in a new ITV drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
Lucy Boynton will star in a new ITV drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. The four-part series, called Ruth, is set in 1955 and over two parallel timelines to reveal secret truths about the case that have remained hidden for decades, pose tantalising questions about what really happened in the months before Ruth killed her lover David Blakely, and shed light on the life of one of Britain’s most infamous murderesses. The drama depicts Ruth’s entry into a dizzying upper class London world that promises so much, but ultimately delivers treachery. It follows her glamorous lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her abusive relationship with the man she later gunned down in cold blood, her arrest, trial and the subsequent legal fight to reprieve her before she was hanged by infamous hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, in Holloway Prison, aged just 28. Boynton most recently appeared in ITV’s three-part adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? ada...