Biography
Thelma Ruby, also known as Thelma Ruby-Frye (born March 23, 1925), is a British actress. Born Thelma Wigoder, she grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Leeds. Her mother, Ruby, was an actress; her father, Louis, from Lithuania, was a dentist.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Back to Black
2024
as Great Auntie Renee
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Bl...
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
as Vera
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an ...
Wall of Silence
1993
as Mrs. Danziger
A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, a...
A Home of Your Own
1964
as Mayor's wife
A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the...
Room at the Top
1958
as Miss Breith
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Johnny, You're Wanted
1956
as PCW / Smuggler
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, b...
Where There's a Will
1955
as Amy Slater
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face th...