Ruth Negga exclusively works in Irish television.
Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 British-Irish comedy-drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe , as adapted by Jordan and McCabe . Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show , on E4 , about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme , where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm . Ruth Negga ( [ ˈneɪgə ] born 7 January 1982 ) is an Ethiopian born Irish actress , who has appeared in the films Capital Letters ( 2004 ) ( also released as Trafficked in some countries ) , Isolation ( 2005 ) , Breakfast on Pluto ( 2005 ) and Warcraft ( 2016 ) . Warcraft ( alternatively known as Warcraft : The Beginning ) is a 2016 American action-fantasy film directed by Duncan Jones and written by Jones , Charles Leavitt , and Chris Metzen .