In Anna Christie he will play Mat Burke, a sailor who falls in love with a former prostitute played by Ruth Wilson.

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Ruth Wilson plays Anna in Rob Ashford's new production, a role to which she brings "both toughness and vulnerability" in Spencer's eyes.

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Canon Pat Lyes-Wilson, who was ordained in 1994, watched as her daughter the Reverend Ruth Fitter became a priest at a special service at Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday.

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