1. Early life

2. Career
     Theatre Career    Film Career  

3. Personal life

4. Work
    Television  Film  Theatre 

5. Awards Nominations

6. References

7. External links

Jennifer Anne Ehle ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|iː|l|i}}; born December 29, 1969) is a British-American actress. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice. For her work on Broadway, she won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Real Thing, and the 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Coast of Utopia. She is the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle.

Ehle made her West End debut in Peter Hall's 1991 production of Tartuffe, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1995. Other television credits include The Camomile Lawn (1992), A Gifted Man (2011–2012) and The Looming Tower (2018). She has also appeared in supporting roles in such films as Wilde (1997), Sunshine (1999), The King's Speech (2010), Contagion (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), RoboCop (2014), and Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).^[3] Ehle also portrayed Lydia Marsh in The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018).

Early life

Ehle was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle. Aside from English, her ancestry includes Romanian (from a maternal great-grandmother) and paternally, German.^[4][5]

Ehle appeared as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche DuBois.^[6] She spent her childhood in both the UK and the US, attending several different schools, including Interlochen Arts Academy. She was raised largely in Asheville, North Carolina. Her drama training was split between the North Carolina School of the Arts^[7] and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.^[8]

Career

Ehle first gained international admiration and attention for her iconic performance as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice co-starring Colin Firth.. She has since then had a career in both theatre and film.

Theatre Career

Ehle made her West End debut as Orgon's wife in the 1991 Peter Hall Company production of Tartuffe, for which she won second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards.^[9][10] Hall then cast her as Calypso in The Camomile Lawn (1992), a television adaptation of Mary Wesley's book of the same name, in which she and her mother played the same character at different ages.^[10] .

After a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company,^[11] she gained her first major feature film role in Paradise Road. She continued her career on both stage and screen.

In 2000, Ehle made her Broadway debut to great critical acclaim as Annie in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, winning the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. Her mother, Rosemary Harris, was also nominated for the same award that year for Waiting in the Wings.^[12] That following year, Ehle appeared again on Broadway in the revival of Noel Coward's Design for Living co-starring with Dominic West and Alan Cumming.^[13]

After a hiatus, Ehle returned to the London stage in 2005 in The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic opposite Kevin Spacey. The following year, she played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with Liev Schrieber, as part of the Shakespeare in the Park.^[14]

Ehle returned to Broadway and won her second Tony award for portraying three characters in Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia triptych, which ran from October 2006 until May 2007.^[15]

In 2010, Ehle starred alongside John Lithgow in the production of Mr. & Mrs. Fitch presented by Second Stage Theatre in New York City.^[16]

In 2017, Her most recent work on Broadway, she appeared in the critically acclaimed Oslo, which won the Tony Award for Best Play. She herself was nominated for Best Actress in a Play for her work.^[17]

Film Career

Since 2010 Ehle has appeared in a string of critically acclaimed films such as, The King's Speech (where she reunited with her Pride and Prejudice co-star Colin Firth), Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), George Clooney's The Ides of March (film) (2011), Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos (2015), Ira Sach's Little Men (2016) and Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion (2016).

In August 2009, it was announced that Ehle would play the character of Catelyn Stark in the pilot of HBO's Game of Thrones, an adaptation of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy book series. Ehle filmed the pilot episode, but decided it was too soon to return to work after the birth of her daughter. She was replaced by Northern Irish actress Michelle Fairley.^[18][19]

Personal life

Ehle married writer Michael Ryan on November 29, 2001,^[20] and they have two children.^[21]

Work

Television

Film

Theatre

Awards Nominations

Other Awards Wins

• 1991: Ian Charleson Award, Second Prize – as Orgon's wife in Tartuffe with the Peter Hall Company^[22]
• 1992: Radio Times Award Best Newcomer – The Camomile Lawn (TV)
• 2000: Variety Club Award – The Real Thing (play)

Other Award Nominations

• 2000: Genie Award nomination – Sunshine

References

External links

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• Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics - Men's epee A
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics - Men's epee B
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics - Women's epee A
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics - Women's epee B
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics - Women's epee A
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics - Women's epee B
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2014 Asian Para Games
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics - Men's épée A
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's épée A
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2018 Asian Para Games
• Wheelchair fencing at the Paralympics
• Wheelchair handball
• Wheelchair rugby at the 1996 Summer Paralympics - Rosters
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2000 Summer Paralympics - Rosters
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2004 Summer Paralympics - Rosters
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2008 Summer Paralympics - team rosters
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer Paralympics - Rosters
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2014 Asian Para Games
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2015 Parapan American Games
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2018 Invictus Games
• Wheelchair rugby at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
• Wheelchair sport classification
• Wheelchair tennis at the 1988 Summer Paralympics - Men's Singles