Lucy Briers

Lucy Jane Briers (born 19 August 1967) is an English actress. Her film, stage and television roles have included appearances in Pride and Prejudice 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. She was also 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 production 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 the Father Brown episode "The Tree of Truth" as Prudence Bovary.

As of March 2026, Briers has played Mrs Hill in the BBC historical drama The Other Bennet Sister. Based on Jane Austen's characters from the novel Pride & Prejudice, the story follows proceedings from Mary Bennet's viewpoint, Mary also being the character Briers played in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice.

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Work Result 2004 TMA Awards Best Supporting Actress Cloud Nine 2008 WhatsOnStage Awards Best Solo Performer Ship of Fools 2019 Clarence Derwent Awards Best Female in a Supporting Role Rosmersholm

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 film2013 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 2020 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 2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Mrs. Vanneck 2026 Flavia Miss Mountjoy

Television Year Title Role Notes1992 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 Marion2007 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 The Night Watch Binkie 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 episode2019 Victoria Mrs. Arbuthnot Episode: "Foreign Bodies" Four Weddings and a Funeral Jody 2 episodes 2019–22 Gentleman Jack Mrs Stansfield Rawson Recurring role; 4 episodes2020 Endeavour Mrs. Blish Episode: "Oracle" Home Margaret 1 episode Strike DCI Judy McMurran Episode: "Lethal White" 2022 House of the Dragon Ceira Lannister Episodes: "Second of His Name" and "We Light the Way" 2023 Lockwood & Co. Mrs. Harris Episode: "Death Is Coming" 2026 The Other Bennet Sister Mrs Hill 3 episodes

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

Theatre credits