Lucy Briers

Lucy Briers is an English actress from Hammersmith, London, and the daughter of actors Richard Briers and Ann Davies. She studied theater and sculpture at Lancaster University, spent three years training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and was part of the National Youth Theatre. She played Mary Bennet in the BBC's 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and later appeared in the sitcom Game On. Her narrating work includes The Riddle of Pompeii, Nurses, a 2001 series, and Ladette to Lady. In 2007 she took the lead in Samuel Adamson's one-woman play Some Kind of Bliss at Trafalgar Studios, a part she played again during the 2008 Brits off Broadway season. She also acted in the BBC drama Einstein and Eddington and in a West End staging of Chekhov's Ivanov, appeared in Twenty Twelve, and has played Mrs Hill in The Other Bennet Sister.