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