Wilsons fame surpassed that of the United States during 2014, after she was cast on Showtimes The Affair. In this show, Wilson was Alison Lockhart who is a young woman who is troubled and comes from a dark background. Lockhart falls for a married Noah Solloway. Wilson together with Mauratierney and Joshua Jackson won a Golden Globe as Best Actress for a Television series-drama in 2015. Wilson, speaking to British Vogue earlier in the year, said that she enjoyed playing characters from two different viewpoints. Noah thinks of Alison as this confident, reckless sexually attractive version of herself. But she sees her self in a different manner, as someone who is timid and unattractive in the real world. She continued: "I do believe America is moralistic and judgmental, so what happens in the show appears to be shocking." Wilson was a part of the show until 2018 after a lot of fans' surprise, however she was vague about the particulars. I was tempted to go but I'm not