Elizabeth Spriggs
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1929-09-18
Place of Birth: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Popularity: 1.2
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
Midsomer Murders
1997
Doctor Who
1963
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Casualty
1986
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Bergerac
1981
Heartbeat
1992
Play for Today
1970
Sherlock Holmes
1984
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Playhouse
1974
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
Soldier Soldier
1991
Theatre 625
1964
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Lovejoy
1986
Performance
1991
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
The Expert
1968
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Screen One
1989No Photo
Festival
1963
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Wives and Daughters
1999
Watching
1987No Photo
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Middlemarch
1994
Love Soup
2005
Jericho
2005
Shackleton
2002
Cribb
1980
Time for Murder
1985
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994No Photo
Black and Blue
1973
Victorian Scandals
1976
Fox
1980
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Takin' Over the Asylum
1994
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Theatre Night
1985
The Barber of Siberia
1998
A Christmas Carol
1999
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
Paradise Road
1997
Objects of Affection
1982
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989
The Secret Agent
1996
The Hour of the Pig
1993No Photo
Nice Guy Eddie
2002
The Royal
2003
Impromptu
1991No Photo
Second City Firsts
1973
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
The Last Vampyre
1993
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996No Photo
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975
Simon and the Witch
1987
Julius Caesar
1979
Sakharov
1984
Is Anybody There?
2009No Photo
Fox
1980
The Sleeper
2000
The Cold Room
1984
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
Richard's Things
1980
Spider's Web
1982
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
Intensive Care
1982
Afternoon Off
1979
Leeds United!
1974No Photo
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
Able's Will
1977
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
The Old Devils
1992
Our Winnie
1982
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981
For My Baby
2000
The Dybbuk
1980
Survival of the Fittest
1990
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
The Enigma
1980
Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976
Fothergill
1981
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
The Cause
1981
The Devil's Disciple
1987
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968No Photo
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985
Parker
1985
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982No Photo