Michelle Ryan
Actor
- Born
- April 22, 1984 (age 42) · Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK
Michelle Claire Ryan (born 22 April 1984) is an English actress. She is known for portraying the role of Zoe Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role she played from 2000 to 200t, and again from 2025. In 2007, she starred in the short lived revival of the American television series Bionic Woman. She has appeared as the wicked sorceress Nimueh in the 2008 BBC TV series Merlin, and as Lady Christina de Souza in the 2009 episode of Doctor Who, a role she later reprised in various audio dramas between 2017 and 2023, including her own spin-off in 2017.
Known for
Cashback
January 17, 2007
Cockneys vs Zombies
August 31, 2012
Cleanskin
March 8, 2012
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
April 11, 2009
4.3.2.1
June 2, 2010
Cashback
October 10, 2004
Andron
November 8, 2015
I Want Candy
March 23, 2007
Mansfield Park
March 18, 2007
Love's Kitchen
June 24, 2011
Girl Walks Into a Bar
March 7, 2011
Mr. Bean's Wedding
March 16, 2007
Acting25
- 2026Finding My Voice as Lisa Kendall
- 2025Frankenstein: Legacy as Lady Charlotte
- 2019Dark Stories to Survive the Night as Carrie
- 2019Somnium as Joan Kepler
- 2018The Best of EastEnders as Zoe Slater (archive footage)
- 2017Black Sand: A Sandman Story as Death
- 2017The Last Photograph as Maryam
- 2015Andron as Elanor
- 2013Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty as Self
- 2012Cockneys vs Zombies