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Elizabeth Spriggs

Stage Actress / Film Actress / Actress | * 09/18/1929 († 78, 07/02/2008) | Buxton, Derbyshire, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Elizabeth Jean Spriggs (18 September 1929 – 2 July 2008) was an English character actress. Spriggs' 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. She received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. Her other films included Richard's Things (1980), Impromptu (1991), Paradise Road (1997) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). ()
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Elizabeth Jean Spriggs-Manson (née Williams) was an English character actress.Her roles with theRoyal Shakespeare Companyincluded Nurse inRomeo and Juliet, Gertrude inHamletandBeatriceinMuch Ado About Nothing. In 1978, she won theOlivier AwardforBest Supporting ActressforArnold Wesker'sLove Letters on Blue Paper.Her best known role in film was as Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she received aBAFTAnomination forBest Supporting Actress. Her other films include Richard's Things(1980),Impromptu(1991),Paradise Road(1997) andHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone(2001).

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Crime

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Based on Jane Austen's classic novel of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwo ...

Sense and Sensibility

PG

1995 | 3.7/5 | 2h 16min
Drama, Romance / Love
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A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II. ...

Paradise Road

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1997 | 3.3/5 | 2h 2min
War, Drama, History
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Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School o ...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

PG

2001 | 4.0/5 | 2h 32min
Adventure, Fantasy
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The on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives, loves and infidelities of 'The Castlefield Blues', an under funded, badly managed ladies football team from South Yorkshire in the ...

Playing the Field

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1998 | 2.5/5 | 1h per episode
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Elizabeth Spriggs

Laurence Olivier Awards Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
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Movies with Elizabeth Spriggs as Actress(35)

as Prudence2009 Is Anybody There?
as herself2007 James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as The Fat Lady2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2000 For My Baby
as Cath2000 The Sleeper
as Mrs Riggs1999 A Christmas Carol
as Schultz1999 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Duchess1999 Alice in Wonderland
as Perepiolkina1998 The Barber of Siberia
as Mrs. Roberts1997 Paradise Road
as Mrs. Jennings1995 Sense and Sensibility
as Eileen Mason1993 The Last Vampyre
as Madame Langlois1993 The Advocate
as Baroness Laginsky1991 Impromptu
as Eileen Blackett1990 Survival of the Fittest
as Mrs. Epps1985 Parker
as Evelyn Smith1985 The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
as Frau Hoffman1984 The Cold Room
as Nobel Presenter1984 Sakharov
as School Mistress1983 Those Glory Glory Days
as Alice Duckworth1982 Intensive Care
as Mistress Quickly1982 The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mildred Peake1982 Spider's Web
as Mrs. Palmer1982 The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
as Miss Markland1982 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
as Olive James1981 The Cause
as Lady Eva1981 Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Mrs. Sells1980 Richard's Things
as Calphurnia1979 Julius Caesar
as Miss Beckinsale1979 Afternoon Off
as Sonia Marsden1976 Love Letters on Blue Paper
as Maggie1974 Leeds United!
as Marcia1969 Three Into Two Won't Go
as Widow1968 All's Well That Ends Well
as Mrs Murray1968 Work Is a 4-Letter Word

TV Shows/Series with Elizabeth Spriggs as Actress(42)

2005 Jericho
as Penny's Mother (voice)2005 Love Soup
as Dolly Smith2003 The Royal
as Vera McMullen2002 Nice Guy Eddie
as Janet Stancombe Wills2002 Shackleton
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
as Schultz1999 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
as Mrs. Goodenough1999 Wives and Daughters
as Iris Rainbird1997 Midsomer Murders
as Ursula Gooding1997 Midsomer Murders
as Mrs. Cadwallader1994 Middlemarch
as Mrs. Gamp1994 Martin Chuzzlewit
as Grandma1994 Takin' Over the Asylum
as Rene Kirby1992 Heartbeat
as Mrs. Andrews1992 Heartbeat
as Inge Middleton1992 Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Schultz1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as May1990 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as Aunt Agatha1990 Jeeves and Wooster
1989 Young Charlie Chaplin
as Mrs. Leadbetter1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 Tales from the Crypt
as Aunt Peggy1987 Watching
1987 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as The Witch1987 Simon and the Witch
as Barbara Thomas1986 Casualty
1986 Lovejoy
as Mrs Mason1984 Sherlock Holmes
as Cora1982 Objects of Affection
1982 Shine on Harvey Moon
as Mary Lou Costain1981 Bergerac
1980 Fox
as Aunt May1979 Tales of the Unexpected
as Martha1979 Tales of the Unexpected
1976 Victorian Scandals
as Lady Frances Davidson1976 The Glittering Prizes
1973 Black and Blue
1970 Play for Today
as Mrs. Kyneston1968 The Expert
as Maud Lowder1965 Play of the Month
as Maddy1963 Doctor Who
as Lampito1963 Festival

Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Wednesday, 09/18 1929 (September) in Buxton, Derbyshire, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Wednesday, 07/02 2008 (July) in Oxford (aged: 78)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN)
Other names for Elizabeth Spriggs (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Elizabeth Jean Williams"
"Elisabeth Spriggs"
"Elizabeth Jean Spriggs-Manson"
Elizabeth Spriggs frequently works together with these people:
Terry Walsh (40x, Actor)
Pat Gorman (17x, Actor)
Geoffrey Bayldon (16x, Actor)
Freddie Jones (15x, Actor)
Tom Chadbon (15x, Actor)
Max Faulkner (14x, Actor)
Paul Copley (12x, Actor)
John Scott Martin (12x, Actor)
Pip Torrens (11x, Actor)
Christopher Benjamin (11x, Actor)
Michael Wisher (11x, Actor)
Alan Bennett (5x, Actor)
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