Elizabeth Spriggs

Born: 1929-09-18, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

Died: 2008-07-02

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).

Filmography

• Midsomer Murders (1997)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
• Casualty (1986)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
• The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
• Tales from the Crypt (1989)
• Heartbeat (1992)
• Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
• Bergerac (1981)
• Playhouse (1974)
• Theatre 625 (1964)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
• Soldier Soldier (1991)
• Jeeves and Wooster (1990)
• Lovejoy (1986)
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987)
• Watching (1987)
• Screen One (1989)
• Wives and Daughters (1999)
• Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Middlemarch (1994)
• Love Soup (2005)
• Shackleton (2002)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
• Cribb (1980)
• Victorian Scandals (1976)
• Objects of Affection (1982)
• The Secret Agent (1996)
• Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)
• Сибирский цирюльник (1998)