Ruta Gedmintas
Birthday: Born in 1983-08-23 in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Ruta was born on 23 August 1983. She grew up in Stockholm and then Buckinghamshire. Gedmintas was born in England to Lithuanian Parents, and trained at the Drama Centre London under Reuven Adiv. She appeared in Spooks: Code 9 as Rachel Harris, a former police officer. She has also had guest roles in the BBC's Waking the Dead and ITV1's The Bill. Her most prominent roles to date are as Elizabeth Blount in Showtime's The Tudors. In 2010 she worked on the independent films - Zerosome and Atletu (aka The Athlete); and then starred as Frankie in BBC Three's Lip Service. She debuted on Do No Harm, an American drama on January 31, 2013 on NBC. She plays Olvia Flynn as a main character. The new programme had 3.3 millions viewers on the first episode.
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The Tudors
Character: Elizabeth Blount
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion....
Waking the Dead
Character: Shelly Martin
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases....
Spooks: Code 9
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The series was commissioned by BBC Fiction's controller Jane Tranter as a spin-off of their long-running drama Spooks, offering a "more maverick, younger perspective" that would attract a 16-24-year-old audience. The series follows a group of six new young MI5 recruits who "follow a different rule book". The decision to relate the new project to the original Spooks was controversial, with actor Georgia Moffett saying “it’s slightly misleading in terms of the word Spooks.” and producer Chris Fry...
Do No Harm
Character: Olivia Flynn
Jason Cole, a brilliant neurosurgeon has to battle with his own alter-ego, Ian Price, in order to live a normal life in this modern take on Jekyll and Hyde....
The Innocence Project
Character: Mary Jarvis
Drama series which follows a group of law students as they investigate possible miscarriages of justice under the guidance of an inspirational professor....
Ripper Street
Character: Clara Silver
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a litt...
The Strain
Character: Dutch Velders
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself....
Lip Service
Character: Frankie Alan
Sex, lies and true love in modern Scotland. Following the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something lesbians living in Glasgow....
His Dark Materials
Character: Serafina Pekkala
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestia...
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Miss Conception
Character: Alexandra
Georgina is an ambitious young London professional who learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, with whom she sets out to identify and "land" the perfect father for her child....
Prowl
Character: Susie
Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds of cartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges them into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which,...
The Lost Samaritan
Character: Elle Haas
After a long night at the office, an accountant stops to help an injured motorist and ends up becoming the target of two dangerous assassins....
Zac Efron's Pool Party
Character: Self
Zac Efron's Uncle Hank and his girlfriend, Randi, crash Zac's pool party and they just can not be cool....
Exit Log
Character: Amy
Exit Log is a stunning sci-fi short set in 2249. Two space engineer's journey through deep space takes a dramatic turn when they discover an emergency message from the past. Can they decipher the message and decide their fate forever?...
Help Point
Character: Maya
A young man who has lost his car in a huge airport car park meets a beautiful woman in the same predicament. Stuck together at the Help Point, his attempt to charm her does not quite work out as planned....
A Street Cat Named Bob
Character: Betty
James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat....
Exteriors
Character: Pearl
In the suburbs of North Las Vegas, a teenage friendship is threatened when the sweltering summer heat exposes a long-ignored secret....
The Incident
Character: Annabel
Shrewdly structured psychological British drama starring Tom Hughes and Ruta Gedmintas as a well-to-do young couple whose comfortable life is disrupted when a troubled teenage girl (Tasha Connor) becomes part of their ordered life. It is a tense and cleverly off-kilter drama, well performed and astutely thought-provoking. It makes great use of its Yorkshire locations, creating a tense and memorably intriguing atmosphere....
The Athlete
Character: Charlotte
Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent, Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal, and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the marathon....
You Instead
Character: Lake
Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform....