Elizabeth Spriggs
Known for: Acting
Born: September 17, 1929 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK - Died: July 1, 2008
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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Sakharov
Nobel Presenter
The Dybbuk
Frade
Survival of the Fittest
Eileen Blackett
The Secret Agent
Winnie's Mother
For My Baby
Olga Jenikova
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Marcia
Julius Caesar
Calphurnia
The Barber of Siberia
Perepiolkina
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings
Leeds United!
Maggie
The Last Vampyre
Eileen Mason
Intensive Care
Alice Duckworth
Afternoon Off
Miss Beckinsale
Paradise Road
Mrs. Roberts
Alice in Wonderland
Duchess
Richard's Things
Mrs. Sells
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Rust
Eleanor Hawkes
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Eva
All's Well That Ends Well
Widow
Fox
Connie Fox
Is Anybody There?
Prudence
Those Glory Glory Days
School Mistress
Spider's Web
Mildred Peake