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Ehle started her career acting on stage with the Edinburgh Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre. She gained fame for her role in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, earning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and a nomination for the Laurence Olivier 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.
- December 29, 1969
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. Born December 29, 1969
- January 1, 1
- 1.70 m
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
- 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.
May 2, 2023 · In 2000, Ehle won the Tony award for best actress in a play for starring in The Real Thing in her Broadway debut. Ehle says she fell in love with the Tom Stoppard play when she saw the original ...
Aug 24, 2018 · Jennifer Ehle rarely does interviews. It’s a fact she tells me several times over the course of our hour-long meeting on a humid Tuesday morning in Brooklyn. Her reminders come mostly in the way ...
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. For her work on Broadway, she won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Real Thing ...
