Elizabeth Spriggs
Known for: Acting
Born: September 18, 1929
Died: July 2, 2008
Place of birth: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
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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Filmography
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6.3
Is Anybody There?
2009
NR
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
7.3
Jericho
2005
8.6
Love Soup
2005
5.8
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
7.8
The Royal
200310.0
Nice Guy Eddie
2002
7.2
Shackleton
2002
7.9
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
6.5
The Sleeper
2000
3.8
For My Baby
20006.8
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
6.9
A Christmas Carol
1999
7.3
Wives and Daughters
1999
5.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
6.2
Alice in Wonderland
1999
7.0
The Barber of Siberia
1998
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
6.3
Paradise Road
1997
5.6
The Secret Agent
1996
5.7
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996
7.4
Sense and Sensibility
1995
8.4
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
8.4
Takin' Over the Asylum
1994
NR
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
7.9
Middlemarch
1994
6.2
The Hour of the Pig
1993
7.0
The Last Vampyre
1993
5.0
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
NR
The Old Devils
1992
6.5
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
6.3
Performance
1991
6.9
Soldier Soldier
1991
6.1
Impromptu
1991
NR
Survival of the Fittest
1990
8.1
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
6.6
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
7.2
Screen One
1989
8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
10.0
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
6.0
Simon and the Witch
1987
6.5
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
6.6
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
8.2
Watching
1987
8.0
The Devil's Disciple
1987
6.2
Casualty
1986
7.4
Lovejoy
19869.0
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985
4.0
Time for Murder
1985
NR
Theatre Night
1985
6.3
Parker
1985
7.5
Sakharov
1984
8.2
Sherlock Holmes
1984
4.8
The Cold Room
1984
5.3
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
8.0
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
7.2
Spider's Web
1982
NR
Our Winnie
1982
8.0
Objects of Affection
1982
9.0
Intensive Care
1982
10.0
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982
5.4
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982
7.7
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
7.0
Bergerac
1981
5.4
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981
NR
The Cause
1981
NR
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981
NR
Fothergill
1981
4.9
Richard's Things
1980
8.0
Cribb
19801.0
Fox
1980
6.5
Fox
1980
NR
The Dybbuk
1980
NR
The Enigma
1980
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
8.7
Julius Caesar
1979
NR
Afternoon Off
1979
6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
NR
Able's Will
1977
7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
10.0
Victorian Scandals
1976
8.0
Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976NR
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975
10.0
Leeds United!
1974
7.0
Playhouse
1974NR
Second City Firsts
1973NR
Rust
19736.5
Black and Blue
1973
6.6
Play for Today
1970
5.0
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
6.0
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968
9.0
The Expert
196810.0
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965
7.2
Theatre 625
1964
7.9
Doctor Who
19638.0
Festival
1963
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956