Ruby Stokes Joins Kenneth Branagh in Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘The Tempest’

By Alex Ritman

Alex Ritman

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Rising British star Ruby Stokes is set to mark her Royal Shakespeare Company debut and has joined Kenneth Branagh in its upcoming production of “The Tempest.”

Stokes — a “Bridgerton” alum recently seen in George Jacques’s Berlin-bowing “Sunny Dancer” — is set to star in the lead role of Miranda opposite Branagh’s Prospero. Other additions to the cast of the play — being directed by Richard Eyre — include Fred Woodley Evans as Ferdinand, Amara Okereke as Ariel and Ashley Zhangazha as Caliban.

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