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Occupation
  
Actress

Height
  
1.70 m

Years active
  
1991–present

Spouse
  
Michael Ryan (m. 2001)

Name
  
Jennifer Ehle

Role
  
Actress


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Full Name
  
Jennifer Anne Ehle

Born
  
December 29, 1969 (age 54) (
1969-12-29
)

Parents
  
Rosemary Harris, John Ehle

Movies and TV shows
  
Similar People
  
Colin Firth, Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes, Dakota Johnson, Rosemary Harris

Children
  
George Ryan, Talulah Ryan

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Jennifer Anne Ehle (; born December 29, 1969) is an 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.

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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) and A Gifted Man (2011–2012). 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).

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Early life

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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 German.

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Ehle appeared as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche DuBois. 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 and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

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. Hall then cast her as Calypso in a 1992 television adaptation of Mary Wesley's novel The Camomile Lawn, in which she and her mother played the same character at different ages. This story, produced by UK's Channel 4, was a five-part miniseries about the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present. The two would later reprise this different age portrayal of a character as Valerie in István Szabó's 1999 movie Sunshine.

Her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice earned her a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award. After a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company, she gained her first major feature film role in Paradise Road. She continued her career on both stage and screen. In 2000, she received further critical acclaim for her Broadway debut as Annie in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, winning both a Theatre World Award and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. Her mother was also nominated for the same award that year for Waiting in the Wings. After a hiatus, Ehle returned to the stage in 2005 in The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic opposite Kevin Spacey. The following year, she played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth as part of the Shakespeare in the Park, 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.

Her more recent film work includes Before the Rains, an Indian-U.S. co-production directed by Santosh Sivan, and Pride and Glory with Edward Norton and Colin Farrell. In 2008, she was featured in the CBS telefilm The Russell Girl.

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.

In 2010, Ehle starred alongside John Lithgow in the production of Mr. & Mrs. Fitch presented by Second Stage Theatre. She played Myrtle Logue, wife of King George VI's speech therapist Lionel Logue, in The King's Speech. George was played by her Pride and Prejudice costar Colin Firth.

In 2011, Ehle played Dr. Ally Hextall in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed Contagion. In the autumn of 2011, Ehle began a costarring role in the American television series A Gifted Man. Her character is a ghost who visits with her ex-husband and asks him to assist with her low-income clinic.

In 2012, Ehle played CIA officer Jessica in Zero Dark Thirty. In 2014, Ehle played Liz Kline in the remake, Robocop, also starring alongside James Spader as Madeline Pratt in the American TV series The Blacklist. She played Anastasia Steele's mother in the 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey film, and also appeared in Spooks: The Greater Good.

Personal life

Ehle married writer Michael Ryan on November 29, 2001, and they have two children: a son born February 6, 2003, and a daughter born March 4, 2009.

Honors

Awards
  • 1991: Ian Charleson Award, Second Prize – as Orgon's wife in Tartuffe with the Peter Hall Company
  • 1992: Radio Times Award Best Newcomer – The Camomile Lawn (TV)
  • 1996: BAFTA TV Award – Pride and Prejudice
  • 2000: Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play – The Real Thing (play)
  • 2000: Variety Club Award – The Real Thing (play)
  • 2001: Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Drama – Sunshine
  • 2007: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – The Coast of Utopia (play)
  • 2010: Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture – The King's Speech
  • Nominations
  • 1997: BAFTA Film Award – Wilde
  • 2000: Outer Critics Circle Award – The Real Thing (play)
  • 2000: Genie Award nomination – Sunshine
  • 2000: Laurence Olivier Theatre Award – The Real Thing (play)
  • 2007: Outer Critics Circle – The Coast of Utopia (play)
  • 2012: Georgia Film Critics Assoc Best Supporting Actress – Zero Dark Thirty
  • 2017: Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play – Oslo
  • Filmography

    Actress
    2023
    Dead Ringers (TV Series) as
    Rebecca
    - Six (2023) - Rebecca
    - Three (2023) - Rebecca
    - Two (2023) - Rebecca
    - Five (2023) - Rebecca
    - One (2023) - Rebecca
    2022
    1923 (TV Series) as
    Sister Mary
    - Ghost of Zebrina (2023) - Sister Mary
    - War and the Turquoise Tide (2023) - Sister Mary
    - Nature's Empty Throne (2022) - Sister Mary
    - 1923 (2022) - Sister Mary
    2022
    She Said as
    Laura Madden
    2022
    The Good Fight (TV Series) as
    Judge Ashley Burnett
    - The End of Ginni (2022) - Judge Ashley Burnett
    2022
    Suspicion (TV Series) as
    Amy
    - Be the Gray Man (2022) - Amy
    2021
    John and the Hole as
    Anna
    2020
    The Comey Rule (TV Mini Series) as
    Patrice Comey
    - Night Two (2020) - Patrice Comey
    - Night One (2020) - Patrice Comey
    2019
    Saint Maud as
    Amanda
    2019
    Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies as
    Tina
    2019
    The Professor and the Madman as
    Ada Murray
    2019
    Run This Town as
    Judith
    2019
    The Wolf Hour as
    Margot
    2018
    Take Point as
    Agent Mackenzie
    2018
    Vox Lux as
    Josie the Publicist
    2018
    The Looming Tower (TV Mini Series) as
    Ambassador Barbara Bodine
    - 9/11 (2018) - Ambassador Barbara Bodine
    - Tuesday (2018) - Ambassador Barbara Bodine
    - The General (2018) - Ambassador Barbara Bodine
    2018
    Fifty Shades Freed as
    Carla
    2018
    Monster as
    Maureen O'Brien
    2018
    The Miseducation of Cameron Post as
    Dr. Lydia Marsh
    2017
    Wetlands as
    Kate
    2017
    I Kill Giants as
    Barbara's Mother
    2017
    Detroit as
    Morgue Doctor (uncredited)
    2016
    A Quiet Passion as
    Vinnie Dickinson
    2016
    The Fundamentals of Caring as
    Elsa
    2016
    Little Men as
    Kathy Jardine
    2015
    MI-5 as
    Geraldine Maltby
    2014
    The Blacklist (TV Series) as
    Madeline Pratt
    - T. Earl King VI (No. 94) (2015) - Madeline Pratt
    - Madeline Pratt (No. 73) (2014) - Madeline Pratt
    2015
    Fifty Shades of Grey as
    Carla
    2015
    Advantageous as
    Isa Cryer
    2014
    A Little Chaos as
    Madame De Montespan
    2014
    The Forger as
    Kim
    2014
    Black or White as
    Carol Anderson
    2014
    RoboCop as
    Liz Kline
    2013
    Low Winter Sun (TV Series) as
    Susan
    - Ann Arbor (2013) - Susan
    2012
    Zero Dark Thirty as
    Jessica
    2011
    A Gifted Man (TV Series) as
    Anna Paul
    - In Case of Heart Failure (2012) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Letting Go (2012) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Co-Dependants (2012) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Complications (2012) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Blind Spots (2012) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of (Re)Birth (2012) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of a Bolt from the Blue (2012) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Abnormal Rhythm (2011) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Missed Communication (2011) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Exposure (2011) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Memory Loss (2011) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Loss of Control (2011) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Separation Anxiety (2011) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of Discomfort (2011) - Anna Paul
    - In Case of All Hell Breaking Loose (2011) - Anna Paul
    - Pilot (2011) - Anna Paul
    2011
    Contagion as
    Dr. Ally Hextall
    2011
    The Ides of March as
    Cindy Morris
    2011
    The Adjustment Bureau as
    Brooklyn Ice House Bartender
    2010
    The King's Speech as
    Myrtle Logue
    2009
    The Greatest as
    Joan
    2008
    Pride and Glory as
    Abby Tierney
    2008
    The Russell Girl (TV Movie) as
    Lorainne Morrissey
    2007
    Before the Rains as
    Laura Moores
    2006
    Alpha Male as
    Alice Ferris
    2005
    The River King as
    Betsy Chase
    2002
    Possession as
    Christabel LaMotte
    2000
    The Real Thing (Video) as
    Annie
    1999
    Sunshine as
    Valerie Sonnenschein
    1999
    This Year's Love as
    Sophie
    1998
    Bedrooms and Hallways as
    Sally
    1997
    Wilde as
    Constance Wilde
    1997
    Melissa (TV Mini Series) as
    Melissa McKensie
    - Episode #1.5 (1997) - Melissa McKensie
    - Episode #1.3 (1997) - Melissa McKensie
    - Episode #1.2 (1997) - Melissa McKensie
    - Episode #1.1 (1997) - Melissa McKensie
    1997
    Paradise Road as
    Rosemary Leighton-Jones
    1995
    Beyond Reason (TV Movie) as
    Penny McAllister
    1995
    Pride and Prejudice (TV Mini Series) as
    Elizabeth Bennet
    - Episode #1.6 (1995) - Elizabeth Bennet
    - Episode #1.5 (1995) - Elizabeth Bennet
    - Episode #1.4 (1995) - Elizabeth Bennet
    - Episode #1.3 (1995) - Elizabeth Bennet
    - Episode #1.2 (1995) - Elizabeth Bennet
    - Episode #1.1 (1995) - Elizabeth Bennet
    1994
    Pleasure (TV Movie) as
    Emma Desneuves
    1994
    Self Catering (TV Movie) as
    Meryl
    1994
    La récréation (TV Movie) as
    Nadine
    1994
    Backbeat as
    Cynthia Powell
    1993
    Performance (TV Series) as
    Phyllis
    - The Maitlands (1993) - Phyllis
    1993
    Micky Love (TV Movie) as
    Tasmin
    1992
    The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series) as
    Empress Zita of Austria
    - Austria, March 1917 (1992) - Empress Zita of Austria
    1992
    The Camomile Lawn (TV Series) as
    Calypso
    - Episode #1.4 (1992) - Calypso
    - Episode #1.3 (1992) - Calypso
    - Episode #1.2 (1992) - Calypso
    - Episode #1.5 (1992) - Calypso
    - Episode #1.1 (1992) - Calypso
    Thanks
    2001
    The Hole (special thanks)
    2000
    Born Romantic (special thanks)
    Self
    2012
    Made in Hollywood (TV Series) as
    Self
    - She Said/The Menu/The Santa Clauses (2022) - Self
    - Episode #8.12 (2012) - Self
    2022
    IMDb on the Scene - Interviews (TV Series) as
    Self
    - She Said (2022) - Self
    2017
    At the Tonys with Imogen Lloyd Webber (TV Special) as
    Self
    2017
    The 71st Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Nominee
    2017
    Theater Talk (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - "Oslo" and "Dear Evan Hansen" Creatives, Part 2 (2017) - Self - Guest
    2012
    Love, Marilyn (Documentary) as
    Self - Reader
    2012
    The Contagion Detectives (Video documentary short) as
    Self
    2011
    Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 6 September 2011 (2011) - Self
    2011
    The King's Speech: An Inspirational Story of an Unlikely Friendship (Video documentary short) as
    Self - Myrtle Logue
    2007
    The 61st Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Winner
    2000
    Working in the Theatre (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - The Coast of Utopia (2007) - Self
    - Performance (2000) - Self
    2000
    The 54th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Winner
    1999
    Late Lunch (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #2.17 (1999) - Self
    1998
    The 50th British Academy Film Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Nominee
    1997
    The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Episode #1.191 (1997) - Self
    1996
    The 49th Bafta Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Winner
    1995
    Pride & Prejudice: From Page to Screen (TV Movie documentary) as
    Self
    1976
    The Annual Theatre World Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Presenter
    Archive Footage
    2016
    The Brontes at the BBC (TV Movie documentary) as
    Elizabeth Bennet
    2015
    A Little Chaos: Deleted Scenes (Video short) as
    Madame De Montespan (uncredited)
    2015
    The Making of a Little Chaos (Video short) as
    Madame De Montespan (uncredited)
    2014
    Pride and Prejudice: Keepsake Edition - Love or Money? Courtship and Marriage in 'Pride and Prejudice' (Video documentary short) as
    Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    2014
    Pride and Prejudice: Keepsake Edition - The Definitive Pride and Prejudice (Video documentary short) as
    Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    2012
    The Big Fat Quiz of the 90s (TV Special) as
    Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    2011
    Pride and Prejudice: Restoration Featurette (Video documentary short) as
    Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    2006
    Melissa: Interview (Video documentary short) as
    Melissa McKensie (uncredited)
    2006
    Reader, I Married Him (TV Mini Series documentary) as
    Elizabeth Bennet
    - Heroines (2006) - Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    - Heroes (2006) - Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    - Happily Ever After (2006) - Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    2006
    Getaway (TV Series documentary) as
    Miss Elizabeth Bennett
    - Episode #15.7 (2006) - Miss Elizabeth Bennett
    2006
    Pride and Prejudice: Lasting Impressions (TV Movie documentary) as
    Elizabeth Bennet
    2005
    Pride and Prejudice Revisited (TV Movie documentary) as
    Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    1999
    'Pride and Prejudice': The Making of... (TV Movie documentary) as
    Elizabeth Bennet (uncredited)
    1999
    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service (Video) as
    Empress Zita of Austria
    1997
    Venice Report (TV Movie documentary) as
    Constance Wilde

    References

    Jennifer Ehle Wikipedia