Ruby Stokes

Ruby Stokes began her acting career with television roles, appearing as Grumpy Girl in an episode of Just William in 2010 and as Little Lucy in an episode of Not Going Out in 2011. In 2014, she played Amelia in two episodes of Da Vinci's Demons. She made her feature film debut as Young Una Spencer in Una in 2016. Her subsequent film credits include the short film The Price of Time (2017), in which she played Evie, Rocks (2019) as Agnes, White Girl (2019) as Girl, It's Going to Be Okay (2020) as Jamie, and Shagbands (2020) as Chantelle. In 2018, she played Lilah in the episode "Nosebleed" of shortFLIX.

In 2020, Stokes began playing Francesca Bridgerton in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton, appearing in a recurring role across the show's first two seasons through 2022. Her other screen credits include voicing Kitty in the animated film Where Is Anne Frank (2021) and playing Isabelle in the horror film A Banquet (2021). In 2022, she voiced Vanessa Dorland in the video game As Dusk Falls. In 2023, she starred as Lucy Carlyle in the Netflix series Lockwood & Co. and as Flo Brooks in the Paramount+ series The Burning Girls. That year, she also played Kayla in the feature film Black Dog.

Stokes made her professional stage debut in 2023, playing Mia in That Face at the Orange Tree Theatre. In 2024, she appeared as Leanne in Till The Stars Come Down at the Dorfman Theatre. Her screen credits that year included Hannah Manning in the BBC One crime drama The Jetty. In 2025, she played Jess in The Habits at Hampstead Theatre and appeared as Sara in the film Jay Kelly.

In 2026, Stokes played Ella in Sunny Dancer and Lily in Madfabulous. Her television credits that year also included Mary Penney in Below. On stage, she played Issy in The Other Place at The Shed and made her Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Miranda in The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, opposite Kenneth Branagh.