Lucy Briers

Lucy Briers
Born	Lucy Jane Briers Hammersmith, London, England
Alma mater	Lancaster University
Years active	1992–present
Parent(s)	Richard Briers Ann Davies

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

Early life and education

Lucy Jane Briers was born in Hammersmith, London. 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 (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. 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.

Awards and nominations

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

Filmography

Film

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

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

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	Mass Effect: Andromeda	Various	Voice role
2020	Assassin's Creed Valhalla	Aethelswith	Voice role

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
1992	Fooling About	Miranda/Princess	Oxford Playhouse, Oxford	with Oxford Stage Company
1993	Syme		Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
	The Tempest	Miranda	Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury
	The Venetian Twins	Rosaura	Oxford Playhouse, Oxford	with Oxford Stage Company
1996	The Entertainer	Jean Rice	Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
1997	Henry IV, Part 1 & Part 2	Lady Percy/Doll Tearsheet	The Old Vic, The Cut, London	with English Touring Theatre
1998	Emma	Jane Fairfax	Calder's Gilded Balloon Theatre, Edinburgh	part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe
	Othello	Desdemona	New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme
1999	All That Trouble We Had	Margo	Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
2000	As You Like It	Phebe	Crucible Theatre, Sheffield & Lyric Theatre, London
	The Winter's Tale	Paulina	Southwark Playhouse, London
	Keepers	Maggie	Hampstead Theatre, London
2001	Spike	Verity King	Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
	Don Juan	Charlotte	Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
2002	Teeth 'n' Smiles	Laura	Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
2003	Electra	Electra	Gate Theatre, London
2004	Cloud Nine	Edward/Betty	Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
	The Solid Gold Cadillac	Miss Amelia Shotgraven	Garrick Theatre, London
2005	Rose Bernd	Frau Grolisch	Arcola Theatre, London
	Musik	Else	Arcola Theatre, London
	The Shadow Box	Beverley	Southwark Playhouse, London
2006	The Voysey Inheritance	Honor Voysey	Royal National Theatre, London
	Catch	Andrea/Carol	Royal Court Theatre, London
2007	Ship of Fools	Rachel/Monsieur Schultze/Holly Trinity/Margery Clermont	Theatre503, London
	Some Kind of Bliss	Rachel	Trafalgar Studios, London	One-woman show
2008	Sexual Perversity in Chicago	Joan Webber	Theatre Royal, Norwich
	Ivanov	Martha Babakina	Donmar at the Wyndham's Theatre, London
2009	Just Between Ourselves	Pam	Royal Theatre, Northampton
	Private Fears in Public Places	Charlotte	Royal Theatre, Northampton
	Miss Julie	Christine	Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames
	Bedroom Farce	Jan	Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames
2010	Behud (Beyond Belief)	Joanne Stevenson	Soho Theatre, London
2011	Top Girls	Pope Joan/Louise	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
2014	Bring Up the Bodies	Jane Rochford	Aldwych Theatre, London & Winter Garden Theatre, New York City	with Royal Shakespeare Company
	Wolf Hall	Katherine of Aragon	Aldwych Theatre, London & Winter Garden Theatre, New York City	with Royal Shakespeare Company
2015	Ivanov	Zinaida	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
	The Seagull	Polina Andryevna	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
2016	Show Boat	Parthenia Ann	Crucible Theatre, Sheffield & New London Theatre, London
2017	Forty Years On	Miss Nisbitt	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
2019	Wild East	Dr. Pitt	Young Vic, London
	Rosmersholm	Mrs. Helseth	Duke of York's Theatre, London
2020	All of Us	Rita/Doctor Anderson/Angela	Royal National Theatre, London
2022	Orlando	Virginia/Elizabeth I	Garrick Theatre, London

External links

• Lucy Briers at IMDb