Elizabeth Spriggs
Acting
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).
As actor 99
Midsomer Murders
1997
Doctor Who
1963
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Play for Today
1970
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Casualty
1986
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
Theatre 625
1964
Sherlock Holmes
1984
Heartbeat
1992
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Bergerac
1981
Performance
1991
Playhouse
1974
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Soldier Soldier
1991
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Lovejoy
1986
Watching
1987
The Expert
1968
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Screen One
1989
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Middlemarch
1994
Wives and Daughters
1999
Second City Firsts
1973
Takin' Over the Asylum
1994
Love Soup
2005
Festival
1963
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Cribb
1980
Black and Blue
1973
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
Shackleton
2002
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
A Christmas Carol
1999
Jericho
2005
Fox
1980
The Secret Agent
1996
Victorian Scandals
1976
Impromptu
1991
Theatre Night
1985
The Barber of Siberia
1998
Time for Murder
1985
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
Paradise Road
1997
Fox
1980
Objects of Affection
1982
The Hour of the Pig
1993
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989
The Last Vampyre
1993
Our Winnie
1982
Simon and the Witch
1987
Spider's Web
1982
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975
Is Anybody There?
2009
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
The Devil's Disciple
1987
Richard's Things
1980
Nice Guy Eddie
2002
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982
The Cold Room
1984
Intensive Care
1982
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Afternoon Off
1979
The Sleeper
2000
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
For My Baby
2000
Sakharov
1984
Parker
1985
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996
The Old Devils
1992
Leeds United!
1974
Able's Will
1977
The Cause
1981
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968
The Dybbuk
1980
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
Rust
1973
The Enigma
1980
Survival of the Fittest
1990
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
Fothergill
1981
The Royal
2003
Julius Caesar
1979
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981
Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976
