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A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (2025)
1 season · 0 episodesEndedDrama
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Told over two parallel timelines, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story reveals secret truths about the case which have remained hidden for decades, poses tantalising questions about what really happened in the months before Ruth killed her lover David Blakely, and sheds 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. We follow 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.
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Network: ITVX
Lucy Boynton
as Ruth Ellis
Toby Jones
as John Bickford
Laurie Davidson
as David Blakely
Mark Stanley
as Desmond Cussen
Joe Armstrong
as DCI Davies
Audrey Brisson
as Jacqueline Dyer
Bessie Carter
as Carole Findlater
Toby Stephens
as Melford Stevenson QC
Arthur Darvill
as Victor Mishcon
Juliet Stevenson
as Charity Taylor
A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story has 1 season totalling 0 episodes, and the series has concluded.
The main cast of A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story includes Lucy Boynton (Ruth Ellis), Toby Jones (John Bickford), Laurie Davidson (David Blakely), Mark Stanley (Desmond Cussen), Joe Armstrong (DCI Davies).