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Contents [hide] •	1 Early Years •	2 Dance •	3 Theatre •	4 Film •	5 References •	6 External links Early Years Ruth Connell is a Scottish Actress born in Falkirk, granddaughter of Ruby Connell, a sole female Lifetime Member of the Scottish Junior Football Association and a speaker and performer of Burns. Only child of former Falkirk, East Stirlingshire, and Stenhousemuir Football Clubs Coach and Manager, David Connell, Ruth grew up on a farm outside Bonnybridge. Her mother Fiona was a high school teacher. Dance Age 9, Ruth trained with The Scottish Ballet's Vocational Dance Education Scheme (Junior Associates). This lead to Ruth performing a number of roles with the Scottish Ballet company, including the young lead role of Clara in The Nutcracker at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow. Ruth went on to win both Scottish Junior and Scottish Senior Ballet Championships, and train for a performance career in Dance; qualifying in ballet (Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance) tap (ISTD) and modern, achieving honours passes at Advanced levels. She worked as a professional dancer with companies like The Curve Foundation and Jazz Art UK, mentored by the late Raymond Kaye and choreographer Sheridan Nicol. Theatre Her film debut was in the short film Soldiers Leap with Billy Boyd and Rupert Graves, directed by Robert Cavanah. Inspired by this experience, and workshops at The Scottish Actors Studio, she trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College, in London, achieving an Honours Degree, and was Critics Choice for the Graduation Showcase. Lead roles followed in Scottish Theatre, including the CATS Nominated production of Faust (Parts 1 and 2) by Jo Clifford at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and in Alex Norton's No Mean City at The Glasgow Citizen's Theatre. No 1 Tours in the UK followed with The Oxford Stage Company (now Headlong) in their revival of Men Should Weep directed by Charlotte Gwinner. She voiced adverts for Orajel under the animation of Tony Cuthbert as well as national 'Voice Over' campaigns for the Scottish Government. She played Grusha for the Palace Theatre Watford and Titania in The Avenue’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and then as the ‘wicked stepmother’ in Hansel and Gretel at Greenwich Royal Park. Ruth also played Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, again at The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh and as Mrs Beaver in their production of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to glowing reviews, directed by Artistic Director Mark Thomson. Film After filming the sitcom Above Their Station with Denis Lawson, Rhys Thomas, Ashley Madekwe, Andrew Brooke and Simon Day in London for ITV/BBC3, Ruth moved to Los Angeles in November 2010. Two Feature Film credits in the US for Meth Head and A Perfect Ending followed in late 2010 early 2011. She was cast as a lead in the short film Reason, for award winning Bayberry Films. She filmed a Web Series called John & Jan with Pepe Balderama and played a reluctant Vampire in the award winning sci-fi indie film Folklore directed by Justin Calen Chenn. Folklore won the ‘Best Acting Ensemble’ award at the Boston Sc-fi Festival 2012. Ruth became a BAFTALA Newcomer in 2011, one of 12 placed mentored each year. She helped create content for the Composer Stephen Endelman's C I Care show and wrapped filming on the short Sapphire Strange, again with writer/director Justin Calen Chenn in 2012.

IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3276635/ British Theatre Guide Review: Faust http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/faust-rev.htm The Stage: Article http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/showpeople/feature.php/12281/ruth-connell Above Their Station: Review http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/last-night%E2%80%99s-tv-%E2%80%93-above-their-station/Men Should Weep: Article http://www.pressnewsnetwork.com/detailed/33671.php Men Should Weep: Review http://www.reviewsgate.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2511 Lion Witch Wardrobe Folklore