Jennifer Ehle
Date of birth: 1969-12-29
Place of birth: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Jennifer Ehle (born December 29, 1969) is an American actress. She gained widespread recognition for her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995), a role that earned her the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Ehle has also made a significant impact on stage, winning two Tony Awards for her performances in Tom Stoppard's plays The Real Thing (2000) and The Coast of Utopia (2007). Her film credits include notable roles in The King's Speech (2010), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). Ehle has also appeared in various television series, such as The Looming Tower (2018) and The Good Fight (2022). Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she is the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle, and she trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Movie Credits
The Ides of March
2011-10-07
Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential
Possession
2002-08-16
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Mo
Wilde
1997-09-01
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft
The Greatest
2009-02-07
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind
Before the Rains
2007-09-07
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caug
Pride and Glory
2008-09-09
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral
The River King
2005-10-21
Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found flo
Contagion
2011-09-08
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide me
The Russell Girl
2008-01-27
Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her loving family to share some
Sunshine
1999-09-13
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Alpha Male
2006-08-10
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, J
RoboCop
2014-01-30
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot techn
Zero Dark Thirty
2012-12-19
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the Septembe
Love, Marilyn
2013-05-30
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with parti
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015-02-11
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessm
Black or White
2014-09-06
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her e
The Forger
2014-09-10
A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison t
The King's Speech
2010-11-26
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabet
A Little Chaos
2015-03-26
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal
She Said
2022-11-17
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g
Spooks: The Greater Good
2015-04-11
During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody
The Maitlands
1993-11-13
There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.
In Transit
2025-08-17
When a complacent young bartender living in small-town Maine agrees to model for a existentially flo
Paradise Road
1997-02-11
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being impri
Advantageous
2015-06-23
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, J
Fifty Shades Darker
2017-02-08
When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands
This Year's Love
1999-02-19
The big-screen debut from Scottish stage director David Kane, This Year's Love is a comedy about the
The Fundamentals of Caring
2016-06-16
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hil
A Quiet Passion
2016-10-07
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later ye
Little Men
2016-08-05
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably bras
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998-08-01
At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993-05-20
Mickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after c
Backbeat
1994-04-01
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the rela
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
2018-07-18
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conve
The Professor and the Madman
2019-03-07
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dicti
Wetlands
2017-09-15
A man attempts to make a new start in Atlantic City with the help of his daughter and a new business
Monster
2021-07-15
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him wh
The Wolf Hour
2019-01-26
Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx
Fifty Shades Freed
2018-01-17
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully e
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999-10-26
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomati
Detroit
2017-07-28
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of
Self Catering
1994-10-04
Alan Bleasdale's star-studded comedy/drama about the lives of five plane crash survivors stranded to
Pleasure
1994-10-25
Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of cours
I Kill Giants
2017-11-15
Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills
Vox Lux
2018-09-07
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose
Take Point
2018-12-26
On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret
Saint Maud
2020-10-09
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda
Run This Town
2020-03-06
After graduation, Bram gets his dream job at a local newspaper. In his mind he’s the next Woodward (
The Adjustment Bureau
2011-03-03
A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battl
Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies
2019-09-07
A suburban wife and mother longs to escape the monotony of her daily routine and the stress caused b
Beyond Reason
1995-01-01
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female
John and the Hole
2021-08-06
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole
Source of Pride: The Making of "Pride and Glory"
2009-01-27
Documentary about the chaotic film shooting of "Pride and Glory"
Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen
1995-11-04
A making of featurette about the translation of the classic Jane Austen-novel into a screenplay, fil
East of Wall
2025-08-15
After the death of her husband, Tabatha—a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer—wrestles with fi
Lone Wolf
A troubled vet struggling with addiction is recruited by a contractor for a covert plot to assassina
Our Hero, Balthazar
2025-06-08
A wealthy teenager from New York City tries to win over his activist crush by traveling to Texas and