Jennifer Ehle Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in "The Real Thing," an honor that her mother, Rosemary Harris, was also competing for that year
• Won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her performance in "Pride and Prejudice․"
• Appeared in a 1973 Broadway revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" as a toddler
• Co-starred with her mother in two productions in which they played the same character at different times in her life, a television adaptation of "The Camomile Lawn" and the film "Sunshine․"
• Known for playing Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 miniseries "Pride and Prejudice" based on the classic novel by Jane Austen, which was not only popular with its original British audience, but also became a hit in the United States
• In a fit of teenage rebellion, she told her father that she would be attending the Interlochen Arts Academy so that she could stay in New York instead of returning home to North Carolina, not knowing the school was in Michigan
• Is a fan of "Game of Thrones," but dropped out of the series after filming scenes as Catelyn Stark in the original pilot in order to have more time to bond with her infant daughter