Who is Jennifer Ehle?

Jennifer Anne Ehle (born December 29, 1969) 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", and the 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "The Coast of Utopia".

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. Hall then cast her as Calypso in "The Camomile Lawn" (1992), a television adaptation of Mary Wesley's book of the same name, in which she and her mother played the same character at different ages.

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. The same year, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, and gained her first major feature film role in "Paradise Road" (1997). She also appeared in supporting roles in Brian Gilbert's "Wilde" (1997) and István Szabó's "Sunshine" (1999).

Ehle married writer Michael Ryan on November 29, 2001, and they have two children.