Lucy Jane Briers (born 19 August 1967) is an English actress. Her film, stage and television roles have included appearances in Pride and Prejudice (1995) and sitcom Game On.
Lucy Briers | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lucy Jane Briers 19 August 1967 Hammersmith, London, England |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse |
Simon Cox
(m. 1995; div. 2004) |
| Parent(s) | Richard Briers Ann Davies |
Early life
editBriers was born on 19 August 1967 in Hammersmith, London. She 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 she was a member of the National Youth Theatre.[1] As well as acting, Briers plays both the piano and flute.
Career
editBriers 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.
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | A Masculine Ending | Student | TV film |
| 1993 | Unnatural Causes | Liz Marley | TV film |
| 2002 | Prince William | Tiggy Legge-Bourke | TV film |
| 2003 | Perks | Sarah Tidewell | Short |
| 2006 | Long Hot Summer | Rachel | |
| 2008 | Einstein and Eddington | Librarian | TV film |
| 2011 | The Night Watch | Binkie | TV film |
| 2013 | Our Girl | Major O'Brien | Episode: "Pilot" (TV film) |
| Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Tonia Scott | ||
| 2016 | Genius | Miss Wyckoff | |
| 2018 | Oil | Mum | Short |
| 2020 | Emma. | Mrs. Reynolds | |
| The Show | Inspector Barlow | ||
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Dog Day Care Owner | |
| 2022 | My Policeman | Miss Brown | |
| 2024 | We Live in Time | Dr. Kerri Weaver |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Red Dwarf | Harrison | Episode: "Holoship" |
| Screaming | Jennifer | ||
| Spatz | Hayley | Episode: "The Curse of Karen" | |
| Boon | Maggie | Episode: "MacGuffin's Transputer" | |
| The Blackheath Poisonings | Maid | 2 episodes | |
| 1993 | The Brittas Empire | Wendy | Episode: "Two Little Boys" |
| 1994 | The 10%ers | Sarah | Episode: "Feud" |
| 1995 | Pride and Prejudice | Mary Bennet | Series regular |
| 1996 | Casualty | Joanna Porter | Episode: "Still Waters" |
| 1998 | Game On | Lulu | Episode: "Crabs" |
| Unfinished Business | Policewoman | 1 episode | |
| Imogen's Face | Janet | Mini-series | |
| Dangerfield | Adele Griffiths | Episode: "The Lost Boy" | |
| The Bill | Clarinda Beecham | Episode: "Love's Labour Lost" | |
| 1999 | Wives and Daughters | Lady Alice | 1 episode |
| 2000 | Beast | Briony's Friends | Episode: "Frightening Shorts" |
| 2001 | The Bill | Helen Thompkins | Episodes: "Long Shadows: Part 1" |
| Nurses | Narrator | Voice role | |
| 2002 | Helen West | Clerk 1 | Episode: "Shadow Play" |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Beryl Collins | Episode: "The Hollow" |
| Bodies | Nicola Quinn | 1 episode | |
| 2005 | Broken News | Sam Henman | 2 episodes |
| 2006 | Great News | Marion | |
| 2007 | Doctors | Emma Fleet | Episode: "Flying Solo" |
| Tchaikovsky | Nadezdha von Meck | Mini-series | |
| Bonkers | Polly Cope | 1 episode | |
| Silent Witness | Patricia Darlow | Episode: "Apocalypse" | |
| Genie in the House | Miss Spinelli | Episode: "Genie Swap" | |
| The Green Green Grass | Doctor | Episode: "The Final Curtain" | |
| 2008 | Ashes to Ashes | Patty | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Doctors | Rosie Clifton | Episode: "Something Evil" |
| 2011 | Midsomer Murders | Jessica Wingate | Episode: "Death in the Slow Lane" |
| Twenty Twelve | Anna Mitchell | Episode: "Cultural Curator" | |
| Laura Fletcher | Episode: "Equestrian Controversy" | ||
| 2012 | Parade's End | Mrs. Ferguson | 2 episodes |
| The Thick of It | Cathy Hastings | 1 episode | |
| DCI Banks | Dr. Janet Lucas | Episode: "Strange Affair" | |
| Dark Matters: Twisted But True | Orphanage Matron | Episode: "Pavlov's Children, Alien Rain, Glow Girls" | |
| Mary Mallon | Episode: "Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary" | ||
| 2013–15 | Count Arthur Strong | Sheila | Series regular; 6 episodes |
| 2017 | Father Brown | Prudence Bovary | Episode: "The Tree of Truth" |
| 2018 | Casualty | Gill Ransom | 1 episode |
| Press | Linda Parks | Episode: "Pure" | |
| Mrs Wilson | Record Office Lady | 1 episode | |
| 2019 | Victoria | Mrs. Arbuthnot | Episode: "Foreign Bodies" |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | Jody | 2 episodes | |
| 2019-22 | Gentleman Jack | Mrs Stansfield Rawson | Recurring role; 4 episodes |
| 2020 | Endeavour | Mrs. Blish | Episode: "Oracle" |
| Home | Margaret | 1 episode | |
| Strike | DCI Judy McMurran | Episode: "Lethal White" | |
| 2022 | House of the Dragon | Ceira Lannister | 2 episodes |
| 2023 | Lockwood & Co. | Mrs. Harris | Episode: "Death Is Coming" |
Video games
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mass Effect: Andromeda | Various | Voice role |
| 2020 | Assassin's Creed Valhalla | Aethelswith | Voice role |
Theatre credits
editAwards and nominations
edit| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | TMA Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Cloud Nine | Nominated | |
| 2008 | WhatsOnStage Awards | Best Solo Performer | Ship of Fools | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Clarence Derwent Awards | Best Female in a Supporting Role | Rosmersholm | Won |
References
edit- ^ Maureen Paton "Lucy Briers: 'Emphysema robbed my father of his laughter’" Archived 25 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine, telegraph.co.uk, 2 November 2013
External links
edit- Lucy Briers at IMDb