Elizabeth Spriggs
Acting
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…
Filmography
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Is Anybody There?
2009
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
Jericho
2005
Love Soup
2005
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
The Royal
2003
Nice Guy Eddie
Nice Guy Eddie
2002
Shackleton
2002
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
The Sleeper
2000
For My Baby
2000
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
A Christmas Carol
1999
Wives and Daughters
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
Alice in Wonderland
1999
The Barber of Siberia
1998
Midsomer Murders
1997
Paradise Road
1997
The Secret Agent
1996
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
Takin' Over the Asylum
1994
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
Middlemarch
1994
The Hour of the Pig
1993
The Last Vampyre
1993
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
Heartbeat
1992
The Old Devils
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Performance
1991
Soldier Soldier
1991
Impromptu
1991
Survival of the Fittest
1990
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
Screen One
1989
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Simon and the Witch
1987
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Watching
1987
The Devil's Disciple
1987
Casualty
1986
Lovejoy
1986
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985
Time for Murder
1985
Theatre Night
1985
Parker
1985
Sakharov
1984
Sherlock Holmes
1984
The Cold Room
1984
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
Spider's Web
1982
Our Winnie
1982
Objects of Affection
1982
Intensive Care
1982
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Bergerac
1981
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981
The Cause
1981
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981
Fothergill
1981
Richard's Things
1980
Cribb
1980
Fox
Fox
1980
Fox
1980
The Dybbuk
1980
The Enigma
1980
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Julius Caesar
1979
Afternoon Off
1979
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978