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Jennifer Ehle

Jennifer Anne Ehle (; born December 29, 1969) is an American-English actress who has starred in and won numerous awards for her prolific work in stage, film, and television productions. Her accolades include two Tony Awards, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress (TV), and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture. She is widely known for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries '' Pride and Prejudice''.

Ehle began her career acting on stage in the United Kingdom, with the Edinburgh Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre. She earned a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in Tom Stoppard's ''The Real Thing''. She reunited with Stoppard acting in his play ''The Coast of Utopia'' (2007), earning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She appeared on Broadway in the J.T. Rogers play ''Oslo'', earning a second Tony nomination for Best Actress.

Ehle is also known for her film performances, including ''The King's Speech'' (2010), ''Contagion'' (2011), ''Zero Dark Thirty'' (2012), ''A Little Chaos'' (2014), ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' (2015), ''Little Men'' (2016), ''Fifty Shades Darker'' (2017), ''Fifty Shades Freed'' (2018), ''Saint Maud'' (2019) and ''She Said'' (2022). She has also appeared in various television programs, including NBC's ''The Blacklist'' (2014–2015), the Hulu limited series ''The Looming Tower'' (2016), the Showtime miniseries ''The Comey Rule'' (2020), and the CBS legal drama ''The Good Fight'' (2022). She received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC miniseries ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1995). She starred in the 2023 Amazon Prime miniseries ''Dead Ringers''. Provided by Wikipedia