After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

In 2012 Ehle played CIA agent Jessica in Zero Dark Thirty. Her character is a ghost who visits with her ex-husband and asks him to assist with her low-income clinic. In the autumn of 2011 Ehle began a co-starring role in the American television series A Gifted Man.

Jennifer Ehle (pron. : /ˈiːliː/; born December 29 1969) is an American-English actress of stage and screen.