Jennifer Ehle

Jennifer Ehle
Ehle in 2016
Born
Jennifer Anne Ehle

(1969-12-29) December 29, 1969
Alma materCentral School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActress
Years active1991–present
Known forPride and Prejudice
Spouse
Michael Ryan
(m. 2001)
Children2
Parents

Jennifer Anne Ehle (/ˈli/; born December 29, 1969) is an American actress. She received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995).

Ehle started her career acting on stage 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 nomination for the Tony Award 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) 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 starred in the 2023 Amazon Prime Video Peabody Award-winning miniseries Dead Ringers.