The Ruth Ellis Story is a true crime drama that was released on ITVX earlier this year and has recently made its way to ITV's streaming service ITVX ...

BritBox's A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story wants to add to British television 's long history of great crime dramas. It's halfway there, with a cast whom fans will know -- even if they don't ...

The series focuses on the fascinating real-life story of the last ever woman to be executed in the UK, starring much-loved ...

This magnetic, if occasionally hollow, four-part drama tells the tragic story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in ...

In 1955, 28-year-old Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in the U.K. after she was convicted of murdering her lover, playboy racing driver David Blakely.

In 1955, 28-year-old Ruth Ellis was the last woman in the UK to be hanged for murder. Told over two parallel timelines, the series reveals hidden secrets about the case and shows what happened in ...

Ellis’s legacy has been cemented in the world of film, television and theatre. Most famously, Miranda Richardson portrayed Ruth Ellis in Mike Newell’s moving Dance with a Stranger (1985).

Ruth Ellis was the last woman executed in Great Britain; what’s surprising is that her execution happened only 70 years ago, in 1955.

Ellis gave her blessing and was there to cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the Ruth Ellis Center in 2000, at age 101. “It was on the second floor, right after her 101st birthday, which, by the ...

Ruth Ellis with Jordan, the son of a Ruth Ellis Center board member. Photo: Jason A. Michael Following the screening, I took several pics of Ruth. She was the belle of the ball and, literally, the ...

Ruth Charlotte Ellis was born in Springfield, Illinois, on July 23, 1899, on the cusp of a new century. The Emancipation Proclamation was ratified 34 years before, but just three years earlier the ...

Ruth Ellis, the fourth child of Walter Jake Ellis and Maybelle Duske Ellis, was born on October 23, 1934 in Wooddale, Illinois. She passed away from natural causes on April 1, 2020 in Mesa, Arizona.