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Lucy Briers
Born
Lucy Jane Briers

(1967-08-19) 19 August 1967 (age 57)
London, England
Alma materLancaster University
SpouseSimon Cox (1995–2004) (divorced)
Parents

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.

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.[citation needed]

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.

Select credits

References

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