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name: "Ruth Platt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ruth-platt"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T16:00:12.240957+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ruth Platt

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2002–2012
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 87 (1), 2010s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Platt, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28466590, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686903/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/181029

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Call the Midwife*](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md) (80)

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## Biography

Ruth Platt is a British actress, writer and director. She studied English literature at University College, Oxford, and trained at RADA, leaving in her second year. She began her career as an actress, appearing in *The Pianist* (2002) as Janina Godlewska, as well as episodes of *Relic Hunter* (1999), *Bad Girls* (1999) and other television series.

Platt later moved into directing and writing. Her feature films include *The Lesson* (2015), *The Black Forest* (2019) and the BFI-supported *Martyrs Lane* (2021). She has directed an episode of *Call the Midwife* (2023) and episodes of *Emmerdale*. She has also worked in theatre, co-adapting and performing in productions with Eddie Marsan.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Pianist* (2002), Fi1m 87, as Janina — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *Call the Midwife* (2012), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Martyrs Lane* (2022), Writer, Director
- *The Black Forest* (2019), Director, Writer
- *The Lesson* (2015), Director, Writer
- *The Heart Fails Without Warning* (2013), Director, Writer
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Nature Unleashed: Tornado* (2005), as Nickie
- *Rosemary & Thyme* (2003), series, as Maggie Goffe
- *The Pianist* (2002), as Janina — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pianist.md)
- *The Prince and the Pauper* (2000), as Sarah
- *Relic Hunter* (1999), series, as Sarah Glover
- *Bad Girls* (1999), series, as Lucy Kerridge
- *Heartbeat* (1992), series, as Lesley Ford
- *No One is Coming to Rescue You*, Director

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