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