Ruth Negga Prepares For 'Hamlet', Lensed By Tesh For Marie Claire UK September 2018

Ruth Negga Prepares For 'Hamlet', Lensed By Tesh For Marie Claire UK September 2018

Hollywood's Ruth Negga is lensed by Tesh near the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera. The newly-crowned Louis Vuitton ambassador is styled by Jayne Pickering for the September 2018 Marie Claire UK cover story.

Continuing with her role "as a ball-busting Tulip" in the third season of 'Preacher', available on Amazon Prime, Negga is poised to play 'Hamlet' at home-country Dublin's Gate Theatre from September 21-October 27. This is not Negga's first Shakespearean role, having played Lavinia in 'Titus Andronicus in 2006. She also played Ophelia in 'Hamlet' at London's National Theatre in 2010. 

The play's director Yaël Farber said that Negga, 36, was assuming the role of Hamlet during a “ravaging time in our world”.

“It seems we are all in the court of Claudius now, collectively sliding towards the cliff over which facts, truth and integrity have tumbled,” she said.

Ruth Negga Loves Velvet In 'Softly Does It' Lensed By Norman Jean Roy For The Edit July 20, 2017

Ruth Negga Loves Velvet In 'Softly Does It' Lensed By Norman Jean Roy For The Edit July 20, 2017

Star actor Ruth Negga is styled by Tracy Taylor in in the season's lush, velvet elegance for 'Softly Does It'. Norman Jean Roy captures Negga for The Edit July 20, 2017./ Hair by Lacy Redway; makeup by Maud Laceppe

Ruth Negga Graces Town & Country August 2017, Lensed By Victor Demarchelier

Ruth Negga Graces Town & Country August 2017, Lensed By Victor Demarchelier

Irish/Ethiopian actor Ruth Negga fronts the August 2017 issue of Town & Country. The Oscar-nominated star of 'Loving' and current star of the 'Preacher' is styled by Nicoletta Santoro Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta and more.  Photographer Victor Demarchelier documents Negga who gives a meaty interview to Thomas Beller. 

Best Oscar Glamour Accessory Is ACLU Blue Ribbon & 'Stand with the ACLU Campaign'

'Loving' star Ruth Negga in Govenchy & her ACLU blue ribbon.

The hottest fashion accessory at tonight's Oscars is a blue ribbon in support of America's Constitutional rights. Loving star Ruth Negga pinned her ribbon to a Valentino dress as part of the new 'Stand with the ACLU' campaign.

Supermodel Karlie Kloss is wearing her blue ribbon as are Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda (left) and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Now that the ACLU is a free-of-charge Silicon Valley incubator, the best digital culture minds, along with research programmers -- all the best from Google, Apple and other greats will be teaching them how to expand their reach and raising the funds to help make it happen.

Nominees, presenters, musicians and guests are encouraged to wear the ribbon to show their support “for the rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution to everyone in the United States,” the ACLU statement reads.

I hope Trump Tweets: "What's with those stupid blue ribbons! They are ugly, baby! What morons!"

Karlie Kloss wears Stella McCartney and her ACLU blue ribbon.

Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda (left) and Lin-Manuel Miranda. of 'Hamilton' wear their ACLU ribbons.

Diversity Gets Major Uplift On US Fashion Magazine Covers Reports Fashionista

Fashionista beat me to the topic of diversity on US magazine covers. I was about to praise Vogue US for featuring women of color three months in a row -- November 2016-January 2017.

Fashionista has tracked diversity on magazine covers in-depth for several years, and finally we are celebrating some progress.

This time last year, we reported a disappointing statistic: That diversity on the covers of 10 leading U.S. fashion publications — Allure, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, Nylon, Teen Vogue, Vogue and W — did not improve in 2015 from 2014. In 2015, 27 of 136 covers featured people of color* while the year before, 27 of 137 did. It was an improvement, technically, but only from 19.7 percent to 19.8 percent. 

In 2016, however, there have been sizable lifts in cover star diversity across the board. For consistency's sake, we reviewed the covers from the same titles we looked at in 2015 — all 147 of them. And we found that 53 of 147 covers — or 36 percent — starred people of color*, as compared to 2015's 19.8 percent. That's a 16.9 percent rise.

AOC gives Vogue US a sound round of applause for featuring three inspiring women of color in a row: Lupita Nyong'o, Michelle Obama and 'Loving' star and Golden Globe nominee Ruth Negga. See their editorials, covers and interviews.

Vogue US January 2017: Ruth Negga

Interview and Editorial

Vogue US December 2016: Michelle Obama

Editorial and Anne's commentary about Michelle Obama's mission to educate girls worldwide.

Vogue US November 2016: Lupita Nyong'o

Editorial and Anne's rich rieview of Lupita's trip to Kenya.

'Loving' Star Ruth Negga Covers Vogue US January 2017 By Mario Testino

'Loving' Star Ruth Negga Covers Vogue US January 2017 By Mario Testino

Read more about Ruth's interview. 

'Loving' Star Ruth Negga Tells Vogue US She's Territorial About Her Identity

“Loving Star Ruth Negga on Biracial Politics: “I Get Very Territorial About My Identity””

— Vogue US January 2017

With her mesmerizing performance in Jeff Nichols’s subtly groundbreaking film 'Loving', the Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga has become a star for our time, writes Vogue about their January cover star.

Negga is 35 (though she feels she “was about 22 a second ago”), and her powers of transformation are such that she’s been cast, with striking frequency, as people who look and are nothing like her. Tulip is a busty blonde in the original. Nichols thought at first that she was too petite to play Mildred. Six years ago, she became the National Theatre’s first black Ophelia and let a troubling force of revenge seep through her sweetness. She embodies these characters so fully, you forget they could have been otherwise. At a time when most British exports to Hollywood have tended toward the aristocratic, this Irish-Ethiopian actress is a different kind of royalty, a “brilliant chameleon,” in the words of her friend the director Annie Ryan, fit for a world of equal rights and dissolving borders.

Related on AOC: Ruth Negga & Joel Edgerton In 'Love Story' by Mario Testino for Vogue US November 2016. Read on. 

Ruth Negga & Joel Edgerton In 'Love Story' By Mario Testino For Vogue US November 2016

Ruth Negga & Joel Edgerton In 'Love Story' By Mario Testino For Vogue US November 2016

Actors Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton are styled by Camilla Nickerson and Michael Philouze in 'Love Story', celebrating one of the season's finest films 'Loving'. Mario Testino flashes the couple, symbolizing the true story of a 1950s interracial couple Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, fighting for their right to marry in Virginia, for Vogue US November 2016.

Writer Danzy Senna interviewed the actors, with Negga the subject of major Oscar buzz. "Virginia isn't that different from Ireland," explained the Ethiopian-born star, who moved to Ireland at age four. “Virginia isn’t that different from Ireland,” she says. “Land and home and community are superimportant. When I was playing her, I tried to imagine I couldn’t go home again because of whom I married. It must have drained the lifeblood from her.” She also related to Mildred’s dawning racial awareness. “When I was a kid in Ireland, there were not very many black people. I was very much like the strange brown thing, intriguing and cute. I didn’t experience racism there. The first time I did was in London. It was that moment that you realize you’re black. A kind of lifting of the veil.”

'Loving' comes in the heat of America's presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement, and Donald Trump's shouting promises to build a wall between America and Mexico. 

That's the double beauty of the film," says Edgerton. "It's a racial period piece, but it also echoes very loudly today."