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