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Jennifer ehle
Jennifer Ehle has conquered above all television and theater (she has won two Tony Awards), but in recent times she is also gaining immense prestige on the big screen. Her role as Jessica Chastain’s CIA partner in “Zero Dark Thirty” may end up consecrating her in the cinema and even some critics have pointed out a possible Oscar nomination.
Born in Winston-Salem (North Carolina), on December 29, 1969, Jennifer Anne Ehle is the daughter of British actress Rosemary Harris , known among other things for her role as Aunt May in the Spider-Man saga . Sam Raimi , and the American novelist John Ehle ( The Voyage of August King ).
He spent his entire childhood traveling from one place to another with his mother, who did not stop filming in different locations. She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, a prestigious school of Dramatic Art in London, but dropped out last year when she was offered the lead role in the British series The Camomile Lawn , where her mother played the mature version of her character. When it ended, she was an empress in the series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones .
She made her big screen debut as John Lennon ‘s first wife , Cynthia Powell, in Backbeat . Subsequently, Jennifer Ehle became a popular face in Great Britain, and to a lesser extent in the United States, when she starred in Pride and Prejudice (1995) , the impeccable BBC version of the Jane Austen novel, where she played Elizabeth Bennet , although the big revelation was Colin Firth , who played Mr. Darcy. Ehle won the BAFTA for Best Actress. “I didn’t even suspect that the series was going to become a phenomenon,” recalls the actress.
Throughout her career, Jennifer Ehle has combined feature films such as Wilde , Sunshine (with Ralph Fiennes and her mother once again playing her older character), Possession , A Matter of Honor or Hidden Fate with montages of great plays by William Shakespeare . , Molière and even the Spanish Calderón de la Barca (he represented “The painter of his dishonor” in the United Kingdom). She won two Tony Awards, for Tom Stoppard ‘s “The Coast of Utopia” and “The Real Thing” (she wrested the trophy from her mother, who was also a nominee, that year).
Although she had a brief affair with Colin Firth , when they filmed together, she eventually married writer Michael Ryan in 2001. She has two children, George (born 2003) and Talulah (born 2009), whom Jennifer Ehle prioritizes over her work as an actress. In fact, she was going to be Catelyn Stark, the wife of Sean Bean ‘s character , in Game of Thrones , and she got to shoot the pilot episode, but when it was announced that the series had a green light to air, she resigned from the role to spend more time with her own, so her sequences had to be reshot with Michelle Fairley , her replacement.
In recent years, Jennifer Ehle has become in many films in luxury high school or ‘the secret weapon’, as defined by Laurence Fishburne , her co-star in Contagion , where she played a doctor. Despite the brevity of her role, she stood out as Myrtle, the wife of George VI ‘s ( Geoffrey Rush ) speech therapist (his old acquaintance Colin Firth of hers ), in The King’s Speech . She also turned heads as the wife of the governor played by George Clooney in The Ides of March . In Blackest Night (Zero Dark Thirty), the film about the hunt for Bin Laden, plays a cunning spy. She will also be seen in Robocop, by José Padilha , in a new character that did not appear in the original film.