Elizabeth Spriggs

ActingBorn 1929-09-18Died 2008-07-02 (78)Buxton, 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).

Elizabeth Spriggs

Known For

The Expert

Julius Caesar

Martin Chuzzlewit

Takin' Over the Asylum

Love Soup

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Sherlock Holmes

Jeeves and Wooster

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Watching

Filmography

Is Anybody There?

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

Jericho

Love Soup

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

The Royal

Shackleton

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

The Sleeper

For My Baby

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

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

Time for Murder

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

Fox