Jennifer Ehle - wikipedia Jennifer Ehle Jennifer Ehle Ehle in 2016 Jennifer Anne Ehle ( 1969 - 12 - 29 ) December 29, 1969 ( age 48 ) Winston - Salem, North Carolina, United States Occupation Actress Years active 1991 -- present Spouse ( s ) Michael Ryan ( m. 2001 ) Children Parent ( s ) John Ehle Rosemary Harris Jennifer Anne Ehle ( / ˈiːliː / ; born December 29, 1969 ) is an American actress. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice. For her work on Broadway, she won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Real Thing, and the 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Coast of Utopia. She is the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle. Ehle made her West End debut in Peter Hall 's 1991 production of Tartuffe, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1995. Other television credits include The Camomile Lawn ( 1992 ), A Gifted Man ( 2011 -- 2012 ) and The Looming Tower ( 2018 ). She has also appeared in supporting roles in such films as Wilde ( 1997 ), Sunshine ( 1999 ), The King 's Speech ( 2010 ), Contagion ( 2011 ), Zero Dark Thirty ( 2012 ), RoboCop ( 2014 ), and Fifty Shades of Grey ( 2015 ). Ehle also portrayed Lydia Marsh in The Miseducation of Cameron Post ( 2018 ). Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Work 4.1 Television 4.2 Film 4.3 Theatre 5 Honors 6 References 7 External links Early life Ehle was born in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, to English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle. Aside from English, her ancestry includes Romanian ( from a maternal great - grandmother ) and paternaly German. Ehle appeared as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche DuBois. She spent her childhood in both the UK and the US, attending several different schools, including Interlochen Arts Academy. She was raised largely in Asheville, North Carolina. Her drama training was split between the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Career Ehle made her West End debut as Orgon 's wife in the 1991 Peter Hall Company production of Tartuffe, for which she won second prize at the Ian Charleson Awards. Hall then cast her as Calypso in a 1992 television adaptation of Mary Wesley 's novel The Camomile Lawn, in which she and her mother played the same character at different ages. This story, produced by UK 's Channel 4, was a five - part miniseries about the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present. The two would later reprise this different age portrayal of a character as Valerie in István Szabó 's 1999 movie Sunshine. Her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen 's classic Pride and Prejudice earned her a British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) award. After a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company, she gained her first major feature film role in Paradise Road. She continued her career on both stage and screen. In 2000, she received further critical acclaim for her Broadway debut as Annie in Tom Stoppard 's The Real Thing, winning both a Theatre World Award and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. Her mother was also nominated for the same award that year for Waiting in the Wings. After a hiatus, Ehle returned to the stage in 2005 in The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic opposite Kevin Spacey. The following year, she played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth as part of the Shakespeare in the Park, and won her second Tony award for portraying three characters in Stoppard 's The Coast of Utopia triptych, which ran from October 2006 until May 2007. Her more recent film work includes Before the Rains, an Indian - U.S. co-production directed by Santosh Sivan, and Pride and Glory with Edward Norton and Colin Farrell. In 2008, she was featured in the CBS telefilm The Russell Girl. In August 2009, it was announced that Ehle would play the character of Catelyn Stark in the pilot of HBO 's Game of Thrones, an adaptation of George R.R. Martin 's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy book series. Ehle filmed the pilot episode, but decided it was too soon to return to work after the birth of her daughter. She was replaced by Northern Irish actress Michelle Fairley. In 2010, Ehle starred alongside John Lithgow in the production of Mr. & Mrs. Fitch presented by Second Stage Theatre. She played Myrtle Logue, wife of King George VI 's speech therapist Lionel Logue, in The King 's Speech. George was played by her Pride and Prejudice costar Colin Firth. In 2011, Ehle played Dr. Ally Hextall in Steven Soderbergh 's critically acclaimed Contagion. In the autumn of 2011, Ehle began a costarring role in the American television series A Gifted Man. Her character is a ghost who visits with her ex-husband and asks him to assist with her low - income clinic. In 2012, Ehle played CIA officer Jessica in Zero Dark Thirty. In 2014, Ehle played Liz Kline in the remake, Robocop, also starring alongside James Spader as Madeline Pratt in the American TV series The Blacklist. She played Anastasia Steele 's mother in the 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey film, and also appeared in Spooks : The Greater Good. Personal life Ehle married writer Michael Ryan on November 29, 2001, and they have two children. Work Television Year Title Role Notes 1992 The Camomile Lawn Young Calypso Miniseries, 5 episodes 1993 The Maitlands Phyllis BBC TV production of Ronald Mackenzie 's 1930s play 1993 Rik Mayall Presents : Micky Love Tamsin Miniseries, 6 Episodes 1995 Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet Miniseries, 6 episodes 1997 Melissa Melissa Miniseries, 5 episodes 2008 The Russell Girl Lorraine Morrissey TV movie 2011 Game of Thrones Catelyn Stark Unaired pilot episode 2011 A Gifted Man Anna Paul 16 episodes 2013 Low Winter Sun Susan Episode : `` Ann Arbor '' 2014, 2015 The Blacklist Madeline Pratt 2 episodes 2018 The Looming Tower Ambassador Barbara Bodine Episode : `` The General '' Film Year Title Role Notes Backbeat Cynthia Powell 1997 Paradise Road Rosemary Leighton - Jones 1997 Wilde Constance Lloyd Wilde 1998 Bedrooms and Hallways Sally 1999 Sunshine Valerie Sonnenschein 1999 This Year 's Love Sophie 2002 Possession Christabel LaMotte 2006 Alpha Male Alice Ferris 2005 The River King Betsy Chase 2008 Pride and Glory Abby Tierney 2008 Before the Rains Laura Malayalam - language film 2009 The Greatest Joan The King 's Speech Myrtle Logue 2011 The Ides of March Cindy Morris 2011 Contagion Ally Hextall 2011 The Adjustment Bureau Brooklyn Ice House Bartender 2012 Zero Dark Thirty Jessica 2014 RoboCop Liz Kline 2014 Black or White Carol Anderson 2014 The Forger Kim Cutter 2014 A Little Chaos Madame De Montespan 2015 Advantageous Isa Cryer 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey Carla Wilks 2015 Spooks : The Greater Good Geraldine Maltby 2016 Little Men Kathy Jardine 2016 The Fundamentals of Caring Elsa 2016 A Quiet Passion Vinnie Dickinson 2017 Fifty Shades Darker Carla Wilks Unrated edition 2017 Detroit Morgue Doctor 2017 I Kill Giants Mrs. Thorson 2018 The Miseducation of Cameron Post Dr. Lydia Marsh 2018 Monster Katherine O'Brien 2018 Fifty Shades Freed Carla Wilks 2018 Vox Lux Josie In post-production 2018 The Professor and the Madman Ada Murray In post-production Theatre Year Title Role Company Venue 1959 Pink Thunderbird Edinburgh Festival Laundry and Bourbon Edinburgh Festival 1991 Tartuffe Elmire Peter Hall Company 1992 Breaking the Code Pat Green Triumph Productions Tour 1995 -- 1996 Richard III Lady Anne Royal Shakespeare Company 1995 -- 1996 Painter of Dishonour Serafina Royal Shakespeare Company 1995 -- 1996 The Relapse Amanda Royal Shakespeare Company 1999 The Real Thing Annie Donmar Warehouse 1999 Summerfolk Varvara Mikhailovna National Theatre 2000 The Real Thing Annie Albery Theatre and Barrymore Theatre Design for Living Gilda Roundabout Theatre Company American Airlines Theater 2005 The Philadelphia Story Tracy Lord The Old Vic, London 2006 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Shakespeare in the Park Delacorte Theater 2006 The Coast of Utopia : Voyage Liubov Bakunin Vivian Beaumont Theater 2006 The Coast of Utopia : Shipwrecked Natalie Herzen Vivian Beaumont Theater 2007 The Coast of Utopia : Salvage Malwida von Meysenbug Vivian Beaumont Theater Mr. and Mrs. Fitch Mrs. Fitch Second Stage Theatre 2017 Oslo Mona Juul Vivian Beaumont Theatre Honors Awards 1991 : Ian Charleson Award, Second Prize -- as Orgon 's wife in Tartuffe with the Peter Hall Company 1992 : Radio Times Award Best Newcomer -- The Camomile Lawn ( TV ) 1996 : BAFTA TV Award -- Pride and Prejudice 2000 : Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play -- The Real Thing ( play ) 2000 : Variety Club Award -- The Real Thing ( play ) 2001 : Golden Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Drama -- Sunshine 2007 : Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play -- The Coast of Utopia ( play ) 2010 : Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture -- The King 's Speech Nominations 1997 : BAFTA Film Award -- Wilde 2000 : Outer Critics Circle Award -- The Real Thing ( play ) 2000 : Genie Award nomination -- Sunshine 2000 : Laurence Olivier Theatre Award -- The Real Thing ( play ) 2007 : Outer Critics Circle -- The Coast of Utopia ( play ) 2012 : Georgia Film Critics Assoc Best Supporting Actress -- Zero Dark Thirty 2017 : Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play -- Oslo References Jump up ^ `` World Authors, 1980 -- 1985 ''. google.ca. Jump up ^ `` Performing Arts ''. google.ca. ^ Jump up to : Jennifer Ehle to play mum in 50 Shades of Grey. 3 News NZ. 9 October 2013. Jump up ^ Rosemary Harris and the Picture : Madonna of the Slaughtered Jews. Nmia.com. Retrieved on February 8, 2013. Archived July 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` ehle ''. ancestry.com. Jump up ^ `` Jennifer Ehle ''. TVGuide.com. Jump up ^ `` Drama -- Home Page ''. uncsa.edu. Jump up ^ `` High Profile Alumni ''. cssd.ac.uk. Jump up ^ http://www.geocities.ws.dwan_y/tartuffe.html ^ Jump up to : Lees, Caroline. `` Classic recipes for success ''. Sunday Times. 9 February 1992 Jump up ^ Dave Kehr ( June 16, 2000 ). `` AT THE MOVIES ; A Resemblance ? It 's Only Natural ''. The New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2010. Jump up ^ `` What Lizzie did next ''. The Age. Melbourne. April 23, 2005. Retrieved February 7, 2010. Jump up ^ Doug Feiden ( June 5, 2000 ). `` ' Kiss Me Kate ' is big Tony winner ' Copenhagen ' and ' Contact ' also honored ''. Daily News. New York. Retrieved February 7, 2009. Jump up ^ `` Utopian win for Jennifer Ehle and Tom Stoppard at Tony Awards ''. Daily Mail. London. June 11, 2007. Retrieved February 7, 2010. Jump up ^ `` Fairley to replace Ehle in HBO 's ' Thrones ' ''. The Hollywood Reporter. October 14, 2010. Retrieved February 26, 2011. Jump up ^ Jace Lacob ( September 22, 2011 ). `` A Gifted Man 's Leading Lady ''. The Daily Beast. Jump up ^ `` Tony Winners Lithgow and Ehle Are ' MR. & MRS. FITCH ' For Second Stage Theatre '' August 19, 2009, Broadway World Jump up ^ Stuart Kemp ( November 7, 2013 ). `` AFM : Kit Harington, Jennifer Ehle Sign on for ' Spooks ' ''. The Hollywood Reporter. Jump up ^ `` Jennifer Ehle -- Biography ''. Yahoo ! Movies. 15 January 2014. Jump up ^ Moore, Suzanne ( 20 December 2011 ). `` Celebrities ' Christmas memories ''. The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2014. 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Question: who played elizabeth bennet in bbc pride and prejudice
Answer: Jennifer Anne Ehle