Jennifer Ehle - Details

Biography

Daughter of Rosemary Harris and John Ehle.

Reknowned for her stage work, she won Best Actress in A TV Series at the 1996 BAFTA Awards for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

(2000) Tony Award winner (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play) for 'The Real Thing' (2000). Beat her mother, Rosemary Harris, to win her first Tony Award.

Last name is pronounced "EE-lee."

Her real life mother, actress Rosemary Harris, played the elder version of her character in István Szabó's "Sunshine".

When casting for his film "Sunshine", director István Szabó didn't know Ehle was Rosemary Harris' daughter in real life.