Revealing family secrets: Ruth Wilson says playing her gran ‘was one of the hardest things I’ve done’

Ruth Wilson has said playing her own grandmother in a forthcoming BBC drama “was one of the hardest things I’ve done”. The star of Luther and The Affair faced the challenge of acting in the role of her own family member, whose revealing memoir has become the subject of a BBC1 drama. New series Mrs Wilson charts the discovery of a family secret, revealed in the memoir, that Wilson’s grandmother was married to a serial bigamist. Her mysterious husband Alec was also a novelist and a spy. She said: “I think it was one of the hardest things I’ve done.” Mrs Wilson begins on BBC1 on 27 November at 9pm.