Michelle Ryan
Acting
1984-04-22 · 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.
Filmography
Finding My Voice
2026 · Movie
Frankenstein: Legacy
2025 · Movie
Dark Stories
2019 · Series
Dark Stories to Survive the Night
2019 · Movie
Somnium
2019 · Movie
The Best of EastEnders
2018 · Movie
True Horror
2018 · Series
Black Sand: A Sandman Story
2017 · Movie
The Last Photograph
2017 · Movie
Andron
2015 · Movie
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013 · Movie
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012 · Series
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012 · Movie
The Man Inside
2012 · Movie
Cleanskin
2012 · Movie
Death in Paradise
2011 · Series
Love's Kitchen
2011 · Movie
The Borgias
2011 · Series
Girl Walks Into a Bar
2011 · Movie
Covert Affairs
2010 · Series
Huge
2010 · Movie
4.3.2.1
2010 · Movie
One Night in Emergency
2010 · Movie
Mister Eleven
2009 · Series
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
2009 · Movie
The Justin Lee Collins Show
2009 · Series
Flick
2008 · Movie
Merlin
2008 · Series
Bionic Woman
2007 · Series
Jekyll
2007 · Series
I Want Candy
2007 · Movie
Mansfield Park
2007 · Movie
Mr. Bean's Wedding
2007 · Movie
Cashback
2007 · Movie
The One Show
2006 · Series
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Cashback
2004 · Movie
Eastenders: The Slaters In Detention
2003 · Movie
Burnside
2000 · Series
The Worst Witch
1998 · Series
The View
1997 · Series
GMTV
1993 · Series
EastEnders
1985 · Series
Today
1952 · Series