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Jennifer Ehle

(1969) Stage Actor United States

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Jennifer Ehle is a stage actor from the United States.

Quick Facts About Jennifer Ehle

Born: December 29, 1969
Nationality: United States
Profession: Stage Actor

About Jennifer Ehle

Jennifer Anne Ehle is an American-British 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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play Theatre World Award Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play

Quotes by Jennifer Ehle

It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

Added

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I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

Deepest love

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After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when…

Acting

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You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave…

Harm

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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year…

Accents

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I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy…

Feels

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The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

Beautiful

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What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

Back

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There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he…

Adaptable

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So much of my life is not about work and that is usually mainly what I do tweet about. We live a…

Life

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People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would…

Actresses

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I really never get recognized at all for anything.

Anything

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There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in…

Ambition

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I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'

Clothes

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If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.

Down

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I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very…

Children

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I never thought in a million years that I would do a weekly series.

Series

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I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. -…

Adore

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I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to…

Autonomy

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