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Elizabeth Spriggs

Elizabeth Spriggs

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).

On screen

  • Jericho
  • Love Soup
  • The Royal
  • Shackleton
  • Wives and Daughters
  • Midsomer Murders
  • Takin' Over the Asylum
  • Middlemarch
  • Martin Chuzzlewit
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
  • Heartbeat
  • Anglo Saxon Attitudes
  • Soldier Soldier
  • Performance
  • Jeeves and Wooster
  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
  • Tales from the Crypt
  • Agatha Christie's Poirot
  • Young Charlie Chaplin
  • Screen One
  • The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
  • Simon and the Witch
  • Watching
  • Lovejoy
  • Casualty
  • Theatre Night
  • Time for Murder
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Shine on Harvey Moon
  • Objects of Affection
  • Bergerac
  • Fox
  • Cribb
  • Tales of the Unexpected
  • The BBC Television Shakespeare
  • BBC2 Play of the Week
  • Victorian Scandals
  • Playhouse
  • Play for Today
  • The Expert
  • BBC Play of the Month
  • Theatre 625
  • Doctor Who

Behind the camera

  • Armchair Theatre

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