Elizabeth Spriggs
Acting
- Born:
- 1929-09-18
- Died:
- 2008-07-02
- Place of birth:
- Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Biography
Elizabeth Jean Spriggs -Manson (née Williams) was an English character actress. Her roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company included Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Gertrude in Hamlet and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. In 1978, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for Arnold Wesker's Love Letters on Blue Paper. Her best known role in film was as Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Richard's Things (1980), Impromptu (1991), Paradise Road (1997) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).
Known For
Filmography
Is Anybody There?
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Jericho
Love Soup
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
The Royal
Nice Guy Eddie
Shackleton
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Sleeper
For My Baby
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
A Christmas Carol
Wives and Daughters
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Alice in Wonderland
The Barber of Siberia
Midsomer Murders
Paradise Road
The Secret Agent
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Sense and Sensibility
Martin Chuzzlewit
Takin' Over the Asylum
A Pinch of Snuff
Middlemarch
The Hour of the Pig
The Last Vampyre
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Heartbeat
The Old Devils
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Performance
Soldier Soldier
Impromptu
Survival of the Fittest
Jeeves and Wooster
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Screen One
Tales from the Crypt
Young Charlie Chaplin
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Simon and the Witch
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Watching
The Devil's Disciple
Casualty
Lovejoy
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Time for Murder
Theatre Night
Parker
Sakharov
Sherlock Holmes
The Cold Room
Those Glory Glory Days
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Spider's Web
Our Winnie
Objects of Affection
Intensive Care
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Shine on Harvey Moon
Bergerac
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Cause
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Fothergill
Richard's Things
Cribb
Fox
Fox
The Dybbuk
The Enigma
Tales of the Unexpected
Julius Caesar
Afternoon Off
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Able's Will
BBC2 Play of the Week
Victorian Scandals
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
Leeds United!
Village Hall
Playhouse
Second City Firsts
Rust
Black and Blue
Play for Today
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
The Expert
All's Well That Ends Well
BBC Play of the Month
Theatre 625
Doctor Who
Festival