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A grieving widow discovers that her seemingly ideal husband lived many secret lives. Stars. Ruth Wilson. Iain Glen. Fiona Shaw. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. S1. RENT/BUY. from $4.89. Add to Watchlist. Added by 25.0K users. 80 User reviews. 5 Critic reviews.
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- 2019-03-31
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In 1960s London, a woman loses her husband, a former spy, and uncovers the complex web of lies he spun when he was alive. Based on a true story. Watch trailers & learn more.
11 dic 2019 · Mrs Wilson. After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come knocking.
- Who Was The Real Alexander Wilson?
- Who Were Alexander Wilson's Wives?
- Was Alexander Wilson A Spy Or A Fraud?
- How Did Alison Find Out About The Other Wives?
- How Did Gordon and Nigel Find Out The Truth About Their Dad?
- How Was The Truth About Alexander Wilson Uncovered?
- What Do The Real-Life Wilsons Think of This Drama?
Although some of the facts around Alexander Wilson are a bit murky thanks to MI6's classified files and Alec's own habit of telling lies and keeping secrets, we do know that Ruth Wilson's grandfather was born in 1893 and died in 1963. He was a novelist, a spy and an MI6 agent, and – most dramatically – he was a serial bigamist with four wives. So w...
Over the course of his life, Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson married four women and fathered seven children between them. He never divorced any of his wives, instead keeping the women ignorant of each other's existence as he juggled his many separate lives and parallel families. Alec married his first (and only legal) wife Gladys in 1916, and she s...
Thanks to the nature of Alexander's life and career, it is particularly difficult to tell for sure what is fact and what is fiction. The big question is whether he was – or wasn't – fired from the secret service for good after 'The Affair of the Egyptian Ambassador' in 1942-43. As biographer Tim Crook writes, the files show that his career in Secti...
According to Ruth, Alison was sorting out her husband's papers after his death when she discovered he was already married – to Gladys. She rang Gladys to inform her of Alec's death, and the two of them came to an arrangement between them about the funeral. Not wishing to upset her sons Gordon (21) and Nigel (18) by dropping this bombshell about the...
Alison Wilson outlived her husband by several decades and wrote a memoir in two parts, which she gave to her children Gordon and Nigel. One part was to be read in her lifetime, and one to be read after her death – which came in 2005. She writes of the realisation that her husband was "one vast lie. He had not only died, he had evaporated into nothi...
Had she lived just a little longer, Alison would have been incredibly shocked to find out about Alec's further two wives, Dorothy and Elizabeth, as the full story started to emerge. "Thank god she didn't know about those two," Ruth said. In 2005, Alec's fourth son Michael, who had changed his name to Mike Shannon, wanted to know more about the fath...
"It was a scary process, being so vulnerable and exposing the family in that way," Ruth Wilson admitted. "It's something that we have talked about a lot and tried to be very sensitive towards." In recent years, the many descendants of Alexander Wilson have been getting to know each other as family. Second son Dennis hosted a party for 28 members of...
- Eleanor Bley Griffiths
Mrs. Wilson is based on the true story of actress Ruth Wilson’s grandmother, Alison, who discovered, upon the sudden death of her husband Alec, that he had another, secret family. But the...
- Masterpiece
26 nov 2018 · Writer. Published: 26 November 2018. Anna Symon is the writer of new BBC One drama Mrs Wilson, based on the true story of actor Ruth Wilson 's grandmother Alison. We spoke to her about...
Based on her grandmother’s memoir, British actress Ruth Wilson exec produces and stars in the true, but gobsmacking, story of a spy and serial bigamist. She leads a cast of brilliant British performers, including Keeley Hawes, Fiona Shaw and Iain Glen in what becomes a dazzling and devastating period adventure.
