Jennifer Ehle gained fame for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice, for which she received the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress.
25 Facts About Jennifer Ehle
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Jennifer Ehle is known for her performances on Broadway, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Real Thing in 2000, and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Coast of Utopia in 2007.
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Jennifer Ehle has appeared in various television programs, including NBC's The Blacklist, the Hulu limited series The Looming Tower, the Showtime miniseries The Comey Rule, and the CBS legal drama The Good Fight.
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Jennifer Ehle was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Jennifer Ehle.
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Jennifer Ehle's ancestry includes Romanian and, paternally, German and English.
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Jennifer Ehle appeared as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche DuBois.
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Jennifer Ehle spent her childhood in both the UK and the US, attending several different schools, including Interlochen Arts Academy.
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Jennifer Ehle made her West End debut as Elmire in the 1991 Peter Hall Company production of Tartuffe, for which she won second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards.
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Jennifer Ehle appeared in supporting roles in Brian Gilbert's Wilde and Istvan Szabo's Sunshine.
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In 2000, Jennifer 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.
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That following year, Jennifer Ehle appeared again on Broadway in the revival of Noel Coward's Design for Living co-starring with Dominic West and Alan Cumming.
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Jennifer Ehle returned to Broadway portraying three characters in Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia triptych, which ran from October 2006 until May 2007.
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Jennifer Ehle starred alongside Billy Crudup, Martha Plimpton, and Ethan Hawke.
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Jennifer Ehle filmed the pilot episode, but decided it was too soon to return to work after the birth of her daughter.
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Jennifer Ehle was replaced by Northern Irish actress Michelle Fairley.
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Since 2010, Jennifer Ehle has appeared in the critically acclaimed films The King's Speech, Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, George Clooney's The Ides of March, Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos, Terence Davies's A Quiet Passion, and Ira Sachs's Little Men.
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Jennifer Ehle appeared in the television series A Gifted Man.
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In 2017, Jennifer Ehle appeared on stage in the critically acclaimed Oslo, which won the Tony Award for Best Play.
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Jennifer Ehle herself was nominated for Best Actress in a Play for her work.
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In 2020, Jennifer Ehle reunited with Jeff Daniels in the limited series The Comey Rule which premiered on Showtime.
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Daniels and Jennifer Ehle portrayed Former FBI Director James Comey and his wife Patrice, respectively.
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Also in 2022, Jennifer Ehle received positive reviews for her supporting yet essential role in the MeToo investigative drama She Said portraying Laura Madden.
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Jennifer Ehle returned to the stage as Gertrude in the Park Avenue Armory production of Hamlet in New York.
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Jennifer Ehle received positive reviews as a last minute replacement for Lia Williams.
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Jennifer Ehle married writer Michael Ryan on November 29,2001, and they have two children.