Lucy Briers

Lucy Jane Briers^[2] was born in Hammersmith, London. She is the daughter of the actor Richard Briers and actress Ann Davies.^[3]

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.^[4] As well as acting, Briers plays both the piano and flute.

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}