{{short description|British actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Elizabeth Garvie | birth_name = Elizabeth Garvie | image = | caption = Elizabeth Garvie (center) as Elizabeth Bennet | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1957}} | birth_place = Bristol | occupation = Actress | known_for = ''Pride and Prejudice'' | spouse = {{marriage|Anton Rodgers|1983|2007|end=d}} | children = 3 }}
'''Elizabeth Garvie''' (born 1957) is an English actress known for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1980 BBC dramatisation of ''Pride and Prejudice''. Her other screen roles include Nancy Rufford in ''The Good Soldier'' (1981), Lady Elizabeth Montford in ''The House of Eliott'' (1992), the later Queen Camilla in ''Diana: Her True Story'' (1993), and Diana Rivers in ''Jane Eyre'' (1997). She has guest starred on the television series ''The Agatha Christie Hour'', ''Alas Smith and Jones'', ''Midsomer Murders'', and ''Miss Marple''.
Garvie has spent most of her career working as a stage actress; with notable performances including the roles of Cecily in ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' and Sofya in ''Wild Honey'' at the Royal National Theatre; Joanna in ''Sweeney Todd'' and Natalia in ''A Month in the Country'' at The Old Vic; Joy Davidman in ''Shadowlands'' in the United Kingdom national tour; Kitty in ''Charley's Aunt'' for the Cambridge Theatre; Mrs Manningham in ''Gaslight'' at Theatr Clwyd; Paulina Salas in ''Death and the Maiden'' at the Watermill Theatre; and Sheila in ''A Day in the Death of Joe Egg'' at the King's Head Theatre.
==Personal life and family== Garvie was born in Bristol, and studied drama at the University of Bristol. She was married to the actor Anton Rodgers from 1983 until his death on 1 December 2007. She survives him with their three sons.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Dennis Barker|title=Obituary: Anton Rodgers|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/dec/04/guardianobituaries.television|website=The Guardian|access-date=18 November 2015|date=4 December 2007|archive-date=19 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119113504/http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/dec/04/guardianobituaries.television|url-status=live}}</ref> The couple appeared together in the Thames Television serial ''Something In Disguise'', written and dramatised by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Garvie is a Trustee of The Actors' Children's Trust, which helps the children of actors.
==Filmography==
===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | 1981 | ''The Good Soldier'' | Nancy Rufford | TV movie |- | 1992 | ''Hostage'' | Mary Rennie | |- |2008 | ''Baghdad Express'' | Interviewer | |- |}
===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | 1980 | ''Pride and Prejudice'' | Elizabeth "Lizzy" Bennet | 5 episodes |- | rowspan="2"| 1982 | ''Something in Disguise'' | Liz | 6 episodes |- | ''The Agatha Christie Hour'' | Jane Cleveland | one episode |- | 1991 | ''Shrinks'' | Beth Myers | 7 episodes |- | rowspan="2"| 1992 | ''The House of Eliott'' | Lady Elizabeth Montford | 6 episodes |- | ''The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side'' | Ella Zeilinsky | TV movie |- | 1993 | ''Diana: Her True Story'' | Camilla Parker Bowles | TV movie |- | rowspan="2"| 1997 | ''Jane Eyre'' | Diana Rivers | TV movie |- | ''Alas Smith & Jones'' | | 1 episode |- | 1998 | ''Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord'' | Veronica Lucan | |- | 1999 | ''Midsomer Murders'' | Muriel Saxby | 1 episode |- |}
==References== {{Reflist|1}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name | id=0308789}} * An [http://www.celebrityproductions.info/displayer_celebrities.php/65/_Elizabeth_Garvie article] on Garvie's theatre work
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