ACTOR
Jennifer Ehle
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- #001
Jennifer Ehle had a relationship with Colin Firth, whom she met during the filming of Pride and Prejudice (1995).
- #002
She shot scenes as the character 'Catelyn Stark' for the pilot of Game of Thrones (2011), but after the series was picked up she left the show due to family commitments, and Michelle Fairley then took her place and reshot all the scenes.
- #003
Her surname is pronounced "EE-lee."
- #004
She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and graduated from UNCSA in Winston-Salem, NC, in 1988.
- #005
She is the daughter of Rosemary Harris and John Ehle.
- #006
When director István Szabó was casting his film Sunshine (1999), he did not know that she was Rosemary Harris's daughter in real life.
- #007
Her father was born in Asheville, North Carolina, of German and English descent. Her mother was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. One of Jennifer's maternal great-grandmothers was Romanian.
- #008
She has a son named George and a daughter named Talulah with Michael Scott Ryan.
- #009
In Michael Clayton (2007) she played "Brini Glass," George Clooney's lawyer-colleague-girlfriend, but her scenes ended up on the cutting room floor. She can be seen for a few seconds in the background (out of focus) near the end of the film.
- #010
She holds the unique distinction of being the only actor to star in two films directed by women that reached number 1 at the US box office: Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).
- #011
Her real-life mother, the actress Rosemary Harris, played the older versions of the character Valerie in István Szabó's film Sunshine (1999) and played Calypso in The Camomile Lawn (1992).
- #012
She won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Coast of Utopia.
- #013
She auditioned for the lead role in Rachel Getting Married (2008) but lost the part to Rosemarie DeWitt. Director Jonathan Demme had mentioned her for the female lead in A Gifted Man (2011).
- #014
She decided to take a role in Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) because she wanted to work with director Sam Taylor-Johnson.
- #015
In 2000 she won the Variety Club Showbusiness Awards for Best Stage Actress for The Real Thing.
- #016
In 1992 she won the Radio Times Best Newcomer Award for The Camomile Lawn (1992).
- #017
In 2000 she received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Real Thing.
- #018
In 2007 she was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for The Coast of Utopia.
- #019
In 1991 she won the Ian Charleson Award for "Tartuffe."
- #020
In 2000 she won the Theatre World Award for Best Actress for The Real Thing.
- #021
According to an October 2020 interview with The Guardian, Jennifer Ehle lived in London, England, from 1987 to 2002. As of 2002, she resides in the northern part of New York.
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