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
8.063
Bergerac
6.667
Doctor Who
7.867
Tales from the Crypt
7.953
Tales of the Unexpected
6.711
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
6.5
Heartbeat
7.125
Takin' Over the Asylum
8.2
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
6.1
Sherlock Holmes
8.117
Lovejoy
7.35
Fox
5.7
Jericho
6.8
Shine on Harvey Moon
7.583
The Expert
10
Play for Today
6.333
Festival
8
The Glittering Prizes
6
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.163
Kind of Living
5
Nice Guy Eddie
0
Young Charlie Chaplin
0
Victorian Scandals
0
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
5
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
6.273
Love Soup
8
The Royal
7.6
Simon and the Witch
5
Casualty
6.139
Martin Chuzzlewit
8
Middlemarch
7.8
Wives and Daughters
7.368
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
6.76
Midsomer Murders
7.515
Time for Murder
4
Heartbeat
7.125
Soldier Soldier
6.643
Midsomer Murders
7.515
Objects of Affection
7
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Play for Today
6.333
Tales of the Unexpected
6.711
Watching
7.8
Shackleton
7.1
Performance
6
Playhouse
7
Playhouse
7
Playhouse
7
BBC Play of the Month
5
BBC2 Play of the Week
7
Black and Blue
6
Movies
Sakharov
7
The Dybbuk
0
Survival of the Fittest
0
The Secret Agent
5.476
For My Baby
1.5
3 Into 2 Won't Go
5
Julius Caesar
8.5
The Barber of Siberia
7.1
Sense and Sensibility
7.4
Leeds United!
0
The Last Vampyre
6.771
Intensive Care
0
Afternoon Off
0
Paradise Road
6.4
Alice in Wonderland
6.201
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?
6.285
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
7.902
Those Glory Glory Days
4.6
Spider's Web
7.4
A Christmas Carol
6.94
Parker
5.3
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
0
Impromptu
6.033
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
4.795
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