Jennifer Ehle

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Jennifer Ehle Biography

• Name       : Jennifer Ehle 
• Born          : December 29, 1969, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
  
• Occupation        : Actress 
• Spouse      : Michael Ryan (2001-present)
• Children       : George Ryan and Talulah Ryan

Jennifer Ehle Early Life

 

Jennifer Ehle Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle, Ehle made her stage debut as a toddler in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which her mother played Blanche Dubois. Jennifer Ehle spent her childhood between the UK and US, attending 18 different schools including the Interlochen Arts Academy. Her drama training was split between the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. 

 

Jennifer Ehle Career

 

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In 1992, Peter Hall cast Jennifer Ehle as Calypso in a 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.
In 2010, Ehle starred alongside John Lithgow in the production of Mr. & Mrs. Fitch presented by Second Stage Theatre.Jennifer Ehle played Myrtle Logue, wife of King George VI's speech therapist Lionel Logue, in The King's Speech. George VI was played by her Pride and Prejudice co-star, Colin Firth.

Jennifer Ehle Personal life

During the filming of Pride and Prejudice, Ehle began a brief relationship with co-star Colin Firth. Jennifer Ehle married writer Michael Ryan in December 2001 and they have two children, a son, George, and a daughter, Talulah.