Lucy Briers

Lucy Jane Briers (born 19 August 1967) is an English actress. Her film, television, and stage roles have included appearances in Pride & Prejudice (1995) and sitcom Game On.

Lucy Briers
Born
Lucy Jane Briers

(1967-08-19) 19 August 1967
London, England
Alma materLancaster University
Spouse(s)Simon Cox (1995–2004) (divorced)
Parent(s)

Early life

Born in Hammersmith, London, Briers is the daughter of the actor Richard Briers and actress Ann Davies. She wanted to be an actress from an early age.

Briers attended St Paul's Girls' School, London (1978—85); Lancaster University (where she studied theatre and sculpture); and then a three-year acting course at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and National Youth Theatre[1] As well as acting, Briers plays both the piano and flute.

Career

Briers played Mary Bennet in the BBC's television adaptation of Pride & Prejudice (1995). She has narrated the documentary The Riddle of Pompeii, the 2001 series Nurses and Ladette to Lady.

In 2007, Briers appeared in Some Kind of Bliss, a one-woman play by Samuel Adamson at the Trafalgar Studios, a role she reprised in the 2008 Brits off Broadway season. She appeared in the BBC drama Einstein and Eddington (2008) and a West End revival of Chekhov's Ivanov. In 2011 she appeared in BBC Four's Twenty Twelve first as Anna Mitchell, one of the three candidates for the post of curator of the Cultural Olympiad, then with her face blurred as Laura, Ian Fletcher's wife. In 2017 she appeared in Father Brown “The tree of Truth” as Prudence Bovary and in 2020 in Jane Austen's Emma as Mrs Reynolds.

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References
  1. Maureen Paton "Lucy Briers: 'Emphysema robbed my father of his laughter’", telegraph.co.uk, 2 November 2013
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