Elizabeth Spriggs

Known for ActingBorn 1929-09-18Died 2008-07-02Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

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).Read more

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Nice Guy Eddie

Young Charlie Chaplin

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

Victorian Scandals

Leeds United!

All's Well That Ends Well

The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

Intensive Care

The Expert

Love Soup

Julius Caesar

Martin Chuzzlewit

Takin' Over the Asylum

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Sherlock Holmes

Jeeves and Wooster

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Tales from the Crypt

The Devil's Disciple

Middlemarch

The Royal

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Objects of Affection

Cribb

Love Letters on Blue Paper

Festival

Doctor Who

Shine on Harvey Moon

Midsomer Murders

Jericho

Sense and Sensibility

Sakharov

Wives and Daughters

Lovejoy

Shackleton

Heartbeat

Screen One

The Barber of Siberia

A Christmas Carol

Spider's Web

The Last Vampyre

Theatre 625

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

BBC2 Play of the Week

Playhouse

Soldier Soldier

Tales of the Unexpected