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Vicky Jessop

Ruth Wilson: why my Magdalene Laundries drama The Woman in the Wall is ‘really vital’

Ruth Wilson has opened up about her “really vital” new show BBC The Woman in the Wall, and her own Catholic past.

The series, which is now just two weeks away from its final, stars Wilson as Lorna Brady, a woman suffering from severe trauma as a result of the time she spent in a Magdalene laundry in Ireland when she was younger. As a result, she suffers from bouts of sleepwalking – and the show starts with her waking up to a dead body in her house, with no memory of how it got there.

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