Ruth Emily Gillmore (26 October 1899 - 12 February 1976) was an English-born American stage actress.

Gillmore's first professional appearance was as an unborn child in Maurice Maeterlinck's The Betrothal in New York City in 1918.

[1] Her later theatrical appearances included Edie Upton in The Robbery (1921),[citation needed] Jeanne in The Nest (1922), The '49ers (1922),[3] No Sirree!

(1922),[4] Gail Carlton in No More Frontiers (1931), and Mrs Howard in The Farmer Takes a Wife (1934-5).

[7] Together they translated the Italian plays Finding Oneself (1933) by Luigi Pirandello,[8] and Giovacchino Forzano's Gutlibi and The Bells of San Lucio.