Born:
December 29, 1969
in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Best Known For:
The Camomile Lawn and Pride and Prejudice.
Early-life:
Jennifer Anne Ehle was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on December 29, 1969. Her mother is English actress Rosemary Harris and her father is American author John Ehle. Jennifer made her stage debut as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. Her childhood was split between the UK and America and she attended 18 different schools. She trained to be an actress at North Carolina School of the Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Career:
Ehle first rose to prominence in 1992 when Peter Hall cast her as Calypso in the TV miniseries The Camomile Lawn. Her performance as Elizabeth Bennett in the 1995 BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice earned her a Bafta award. A spell with the Royal Shakespeare Company was followed by her first major film role in Paradise Road (1997). In the same year she played the lead role in Alan Bleasdale's TV drama Melissa. Other film roles have included This Year's Love (1999), Sunshine (1999), The King's Speech (2010), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), The Ides of March (2011), Contagion (2011) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). In 2011, she appeared in short-lived American medical drama A Gifted Man. More recently, she has appeared in RoboCop (2014).
Quote:
'People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.'
Trivia:
In 2000, she won a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in The Real Thing.