Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle | |
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 Ehle in 2016 | |
| Born | Jennifer Anne Ehle December 29, 1969 |
| Education | North Carolina School of the Arts Central School of Speech and Drama |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Spouse |
Michael Ryan
(m. 2001; div. 2025) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
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| Awards | See below |
Jennifer Anne Ehle (/ˈiːli/; born December 29, 1969) is an American-British actress who has starred in and won numerous awards for her prolific work in stage, film, and television productions. Her accolades include two Tony Awards, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress (TV), and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture. She is widely known for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice, for which she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
Ehle began her career acting on stage in the United Kingdom, with the Edinburgh Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre. She earned a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. She reunited with Stoppard acting in his play The Coast of Utopia (2007), earning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She appeared on Broadway in the J. T. Rogers play Oslo, earning a second Tony nomination for Best Actress.
Ehle is also known for her film performances, including The King's Speech (2010), Contagion (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), A Little Chaos (2014), Little Men (2016) and She Said (2022). She has also appeared in various television programs, including the Hulu limited series The Looming Tower (2016), the Showtime miniseries The Comey Rule (2020), the CBS legal drama The Good Fight (2022), the Amazon Prime miniseries Dead Ringers (2023), and AMC's The Vampire Lestat (2026).