Elizabeth Garvie is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actress best known for her role as Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth Bennet, later Elizabeth Darcy, is the protagonist in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She is often referred to as Eliza or Lizzy by her friends and family...

 in the 1980 BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 dramatisation of Pride and Prejudice.

Garvie was married to the actor Anton Rodgers

Anton Rodgers

Anton Rodgers was an English actor and occasional director. He performed on stage, in film and in television dramas and sitcoms.-Life and career:...

 until his death on 1 December 2007. They appeared together in the Thames Television serial 'Something In Disguise', written and dramatised by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE is an English novelist. She was previously an actress and a model.In 1951 she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit...

. Miss Garvie is a Trustee of The Actors' Charitable Trust (helping children of actors) and of Denville Hall (the UK care home for elderly actors).

Select Filmography

• Jane Eyre
  Jane Eyre (1997 film)
  Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. This version appeared on the A&E Television Network in 1997....
  
  as Diana Rivers
• Diana: Her True Story as Camilla Parker-Bowles
• Hostage
  Hostage
  A hostage is a person or entity which is held by a captor. The original definition meant that this was handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against certain acts of war...
  
  as Mary Rennie
• The Mirror Crack'd
  The Mirror Crack'd
  The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 film British mystery film based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side...
  
  as Ella Zeilinsky
• The House of Eliott
  The House of Eliott
  The House of Eliott is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 1991 and 1994. The series starred Stella Gonet and Louise Lombard as two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and eventually their own haute couture fashion house...
  
  as Lady Elizabeth Montford
• Pride and Prejudice as Elizabeth "Lizzy" Bennet

External links

• An article on Garvie's theatre work