Elizabeth Spriggs
Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK — Sep 18 1929• Died Jul 02 2008
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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), Paradis…
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Midsomer Murders
Iris Rainbird
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs. Leadbetter
Doctor Who
Maddy
Casualty
Barbara Thomas
Play for Today
Sonia Marsden
Heartbeat
Rene Kirby
Bergerac
Mary Lou Costain
BBC Play of the Month
Maud Lowder
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Fat Lady
Tales of the Unexpected
Aunt May
Theatre 625
Sherlock Holmes
Mrs Mason
Tales from the Crypt
Mrs. Trask
Playhouse
Miss Parsons
The Expert
Mrs. Kyneston
Soldier Soldier
Mrs. Henwood
Lovejoy
Daphne Shotley
Jeeves and Wooster
Aunt Agatha
Performance
Mistress Quickly
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Eva Peterlee
BBC2 Play of the Week
Sarah
Festival
Lampito
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Schultz
Shine on Harvey Moon
Nan
Shackleton
Janet Stancombe Wills
Watching
Aunty Peggy
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings
Love Soup
Penny's Mother (voice)
Middlemarch
Mrs. Cadwallader
Wives and Daughters
Mrs Goodenough
Victorian Scandals
Hannah Cullwick
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mrs Gamp
Theatre Night
Mrs. Dudgeon
Black and Blue
Eleanor Hawkes
Fox
Connie Fox
Time for Murder
Evelyn Smith
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
May
Cribb
Mrs Gurney
Young Charlie Chaplin
Madge Kendal
Objects of Affection
Cora
Takin' Over the Asylum
Grandma
Alice in Wonderland
Duchess
Jericho
Ellen Jericho
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Inge Middleton
The Barber of Siberia
Perepiolkina
Armchair Theatre
Writing
Impromptu
Baroness Laginsky
Paradise Road
Mrs. Roberts
The Royal
Dolly Smith
Nice Guy Eddie
Vera McMullen
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Eva
A Christmas Carol
Mrs. Riggs
The Secret Agent
Winnie's Mother
The Cold Room
Frau Hoffman
Fox
Connie Fox
Sakharov
Nobel Presenter
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
Is Anybody There?
Prudence
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Schultz
The Hour of the Pig
Madame Langlois
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mistress Quickly
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Miss Markland
Richard's Things
Mrs. Sells
The Sleeper
Cath
Parker
Mrs. Epps
Able's Will
Sarah
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Tabby
Intensive Care
Alice Duckworth
Afternoon Off
Miss Beckinsale
For My Baby
Olga Jenikova
The Devil's Disciple
Mrs. Dudgeon
A Pinch of Snuff
Annabelle Andover
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Marcia
The Last Vampyre
Eileen Mason
Those Glory Glory Days
School Mistress
Julius Caesar
Calphurnia
Rust
Eleanor Hawkes
The Enigma
Miss Parsons
Our Winnie
Cora
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Brenda (voice)
The Old Devils
Dorothy Morgan
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Herself
All's Well That Ends Well
Widow
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Mrs Murray
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Mrs. Palmer
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Simon and the Witch
The Witch
Leeds United!
Maggie
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Sonia Marsden
The Cause
Olive James
Spider's Web
Mildred Peake
Fothergill
Middle Class Woman
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Mrs Radcliffe
Survival of the Fittest
Eileen Blackett
The Dybbuk
Frade
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Evelyn Smith