Career
Briers is best known for playing Mary Bennet in the 1995 BBC TV adaptaion of Pride & Prejudice. Coincidentally, she appeared in an episode of Game On with Pride and Prejudice cast member Crispin Bonham-Carter, with Victoria Hamilton (Pride's Mrs Forster) in a stage production of As You Like It, and with Tom Hollander (Mr Collins in the 2005 version) in a stage production of Don Juan.
On TV, Briers narrated the documentary The Riddle of Pompeii, the series Nurses and Ladette to Lady.
In 2007 she appeared in Some Kind of Bliss, a new one-woman play by Samuel Adamson at the Trafalgar Studios, a role she reprised in the 2008 Brits off Broadway season.
In 2008 she appeared in the BBC drama Einstein and Eddington and a West End revival of Chekhov's Ivanov.
In 2011 she appeared in BBC Four's Twenty Twelve as Ian Fletcher's wife. Her features were pixellated, as her character refused to allow herself to appear on screen.
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