On Easter Sunday in 1955, glamorous model, nightclub manager and mother-of-two Ruth Ellis fired six shots outside The Magdala pub in Hampstead, killing her abusive lover David Blakely, an upper ...

By 17, Ruth was part of London’s seedy social scene and had become a nude model at the Camera Club and the Court Club situated in the heart of Soho.

Ruth Ellis was a Welsh mother of two who worked as a nightclub hostess, model, and one-time background actor. (She had an uncredited role in the 1951 film Lady Godiva Rides Again.) On April 10 ...

Known as Ruth Hornby then, she was the fifth of six children to Arthur and Berta, with the family eventually moving to London in 1941. When Ruth was 17 years old, she became pregnant from a Canadian ...

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 a Welsh mother of two who worked as a nightclub hostess, model, and one-time background actor. (She had an uncredited role in the 1951 film Lady Godiva Rides Again.) ...