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"Jennifer Anne Ehle" is an American actress of stage and screen. She is perhaps best known for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the successful 1995 miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial)/Pride and Prejudice, which won her the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress/BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress.

She made her West End debut in 1991 in Peter Hall (theatre director)/Peter Hall's production of Tartuffe, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1995. She has won two Tony Awards for her work on Broadway, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play/Best Actress in a Play for The Real Thing (play)/The Real Thing in 1999 and Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play/Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Coast of Utopia in 2007. She has appeared in supporting roles in such films as Wilde (film)/Wilde (1997), Sunshine (1999 film)/Sunshine (1999), The King's Speech (2010), Contagion (film)/Contagion (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), RoboCop (2014 film)/RoboCop (2014), and the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey (film)/Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). She also starred in the short-lived American television series A Gifted Man (2011–2012).

She is the daughter of English actress Rosemary Harris and American author John Ehle.