Elizabeth Spriggs

Acting

Born: 1929-09-18

Died: 2008-07-02

From: Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

Gender: Female

Popularity: 1.3

Also Known As

Elizabeth Jean WilliamsElisabeth SpriggsElizabeth Jean Spriggs-MansonЕлізабет Спріггс

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).

Awards & Nominations1 won · 1 nominated

🏆 Won

Laurence Olivier Awards

1978

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

1975

Elizabeth Spriggs

Also Known As

Biography

Awards & Nominations1 won · 1 nominated

Acting89 titles

Leeds United!

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

Young Charlie Chaplin

Victorian Scandals

Intensive Care

The Expert

Julius Caesar

Love Soup

Takin' Over the Asylum

Martin Chuzzlewit

Watching

Sherlock Holmes

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Jeeves and Wooster

The Merry Wives of Windsor

The Devil's Disciple

Love Letters on Blue Paper

Tales from the Crypt

Objects of Affection

Cribb

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Doctor Who

Middlemarch

The Royal

Shine on Harvey Moon

Sakharov

Midsomer Murders

Sense and Sensibility

Lovejoy

Jericho

Wives and Daughters

Heartbeat

Shackleton

Theatre 625

Screen One

Spider's Web

The Barber of Siberia

The Last Vampyre

A Christmas Carol

Playhouse

BBC2 Play of the Week

Tales of the Unexpected

Soldier Soldier

Bergerac

Play for Today

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

The Sleeper

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Fox

Paradise Road

Is Anybody There?

Parker

Performance

Alice in Wonderland

The Hour of the Pig

Casualty

Impromptu

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

Simon and the Witch

The BBC Television Shakespeare

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

The Snow Queen's Revenge

The Secret Agent

Lady Chatterley's Lover

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Those Glory Glory Days

BBC Play of the Month

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

3 Into 2 Won't Go

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

Richard's Things

The Cold Room

Time for Murder