Michelle Ryan
Known for: Acting
Born: April 22, 1984
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
25 movies · 19 TV shows, newest first
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Finding My Voice
2026
8.0
Frankenstein: Legacy
2025
4.1
Dark Stories to Survive the Night
2019
8.4
Dark Stories
2019
9.0
Somnium
2019
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The Best of EastEnders
2018
6.7
True Horror
2018
7.0
Black Sand: A Sandman Story
2017
6.0
The Last Photograph
2017
3.6
Andron
2015
9.0
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
5.8
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012
5.7
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
4.6
The Man Inside
2012
5.6
Cleanskin
2012
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011
5.4
Love's Kitchen
2011
7.6
The Borgias
2011
5.1
Girl Walks Into a Bar
2011
6.9
Covert Affairs
2010
5.6
Huge
2010
5.5
4.3.2.1
2010
8.0
One Night in Emergency
20104.5
Mister Eleven
2009
7.5
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
20096.5
The Justin Lee Collins Show
2009
4.0
Flick
2008
7.8
Merlin
2008
6.4
Bionic Woman
2007
7.5
Jekyll
2007
5.1
I Want Candy
2007
6.1
Mansfield Park
2007
7.1
Mr. Bean's Wedding
2007
7.0
Cashback
2007
4.4
The One Show
2006
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
7.0
Cashback
2004
7.0
Eastenders: The Slaters In Detention
2003
7.0
Burnside
2000
7.8
The Worst Witch
1998
4.3
The View
1997
5.8
GMTV
1993
4.2
EastEnders
1985
5.6
Today
1952