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- Jennifer Anne Ehle is an American actress, the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice.
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- Her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet was a career-defining role. Ehle’s portray of Elizabeth Bennet was iconic, launching her into the spotlight as a young actress.
- Romance blossomed off screen between Firth and Ehle. One of the reasons this Pride and Prejudiceworks so well is the palpable chemistry between Colin Firth and Ehle as Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.
- When the coronavirus pandemic began, Ehle read Pride and Prejudice live on Instagram. In a time of uncertainty, Ehle provided comfort by opening up her copy of Pride and Prejudice and reading the entire book to her followers on Instagram.
- Acting runs in the family. Ehle’s mother is British actress Rosemary Harris, and the mother-daughter duo is an acting powerhouse. When she was four years old, Ehle appeared on stage in the Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, where her mother portrayed Blanche DuBois.
One of Ehle's first notable roles was as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice co-starring Colin Firth, for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best 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.
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Jennifer Ehle was chosen from six serious candidates to play Elizabeth, the second Bennet daughter, the brightest girl, and her father's favourite. At the time in her mid-20s, Ehle had read Pride and Prejudice at the age of 12 and was the only actor to be present throughout the whole filming schedule.
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Nov 27, 2015 · Twenty years ago Jennifer Ehle was very famous indeed. Thanks to her Bafta-winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, she was heralded as one of Britain's most exciting young talents, despite actually being American (albeit with a British mother).
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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.
Pride and Prejudice: With Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, Susannah Harker, Julia Sawalha. While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.
