Lucy Jane Briers is an English actress. Her film, stage and television roles have included appearances in ''

Pride and Prejudice ''Pride and Prejudice'' is the second published novel (but third to be written) by English author Jane Austen, written when she was age 20-21, and later published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabe ...

'' (1995) and sitcom '' Game On''.

Early life and education

Lucy Jane Briers was born in

Hammersmith Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. It ...

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

. She is the daughter of the actor Richard Briers and actress Ann Davies. Briers attended St Paul's Girls' School, London (1978–85);

Lancaster University Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a collegiate public university, public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, as one of several new univer ...

(where she studied

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

and

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

); and then a three-year acting course at the

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is a drama school in Bristol, England. The institution provides training in acting and production for careers in film, television and theatre. BOVTS was an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance a ...

and she was a member of the

National Youth Theatre The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) is a youth theatre and charity in London, created with the aim of developing young people's artistic skills via theatrical productions and other creative endeavours. Founded in 1956 as the world ...

.Maureen Pato
"Lucy Briers: 'Emphysema robbed my father of his laughter’"
, telegraph.co.uk, 2 November 2013 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 Trafalgar Theatre is a West End theatre in Whitehall, near Trafalgar Square, in the City of Westminster, London. The Grade II listed building was built in 1930 with interiors in the Art Deco style as the Whitehall Theatre; it regularly staged ...

, 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 BBC Four is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002

'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 the '' Father Brown'' episode "The Tree of Truth" as Prudence Bovary.

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Theatre credits

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Briers, Lucy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Alumni of Lancaster University Alumni of Cartmel College, Lancaster English film actresses English Shakespearean actresses English stage actresses English television actresses National Youth Theatre members People educated at St Paul's Girls' School Actresses from London People from Hammersmith Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham