Michelle Ryan
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 44
The View
1997
Death in Paradise
2011
EastEnders
1985
Merlin
2008
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
GMTV
1993
The One Show
2006
The Borgias
2011
Covert Affairs
2010
Today
1952
Jekyll
2007
The Worst Witch
1998
Bionic Woman
2007
Cashback
2007
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
2012
Cleanskin
2012
Andron
2015
Mansfield Park
2007
Dark Stories
2019
The Justin Lee Collins Show
2009
4.3.2.1
2010
I Want Candy
2007
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
Burnside
2000
Huge
2010
Love's Kitchen
2011
True Horror
2018
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013
Finding My Voice
2026
Cashback
2004
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
2009
Girl Walks Into a Bar
2011
Mister Eleven
2009
Mr. Bean's Wedding
2007
The Best of EastEnders
2018
Frankenstein: Legacy
2025
Flick
2008
The Man Inside
2012
The Last Photograph
2017
One Night in Emergency
2010
Dark Stories to Survive the Night
2019
Black Sand: A Sandman Story
2017
Somnium
2019
Eastenders: The Slaters In Detention
2003