Elizabeth Spriggs
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).
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Jeeves and Wooster
8.1
Bergerac
6.667
Doctor Who
7.9
Tales from the Crypt
7.949
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
6.537
Heartbeat
7
Takin' Over the Asylum
8.2
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
6.1
Sherlock Holmes
8.1
Lovejoy
7.3
Fox
5.7
Jericho
6.5
Shine on Harvey Moon
7.583
The Expert
10
Play for Today
6.333
Black and Blue
6
Festival
0
BBC Play of the Month
5
The Glittering Prizes
6
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.156
Kind of Living
5
The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
Nice Guy Eddie
0
Victorian Scandals
0
Young Charlie Chaplin
0
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
5
Class Act
0
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
6.2
Love Soup
8
The Royal
7.6
Simon and the Witch
5
Casualty
6.1
Martin Chuzzlewit
7.5
Middlemarch
7.8
Wives and Daughters
7.3
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
6.739
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Time for Murder
4
Heartbeat
7
Soldier Soldier
6.4
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Objects of Affection
7
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Watching
7.8
Shackleton
7.1
The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
Performance
6
Playhouse
7
Movies
Sakharov
7
The Dybbuk
0
Survival of the Fittest
0
The Secret Agent
5.4
For My Baby
1.5
3 Into 2 Won't Go
5
Julius Caesar
8.5
The Barber of Siberia
7.095
Sense and Sensibility
7.419
Leeds United!
0
The Last Vampyre
6.9
Intensive Care
0
Afternoon Off
0
Alice in Wonderland
6.2
Paradise Road
6.4
Richard's Things
5
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
5.6
Rust
0
Lady Chatterley's Lover
5.4
All's Well That Ends Well
0
Fox
1
Is Anybody There?
6.246
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7.901
Those Glory Glory Days
4.6
Spider's Web
7.4
A Christmas Carol
6.9
Parker
5.3
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
0
Impromptu
6.051
The Hour of the Pig
6.2
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
3
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
5.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
4.8
A Pinch of Snuff
0
The Merry Wives of Windsor
8
The Devil's Disciple
6
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
0
The Sleeper
4
Love Letters on Blue Paper
0
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
0
The Cause
0
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
6.5
The Cold Room
4.75
The Old Devils
0
Our Winnie
0
The Enigma
0
Fothergill
0
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
0
Able's Will
0
The Snow Queen's Revenge
5.409