Elizabeth Spriggs

Acting

Elizabeth Spriggs

Born 1929-09-18 Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK 50 films

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…

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Filmography

50 films
Sakharov poster

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil r…

Sakharov

★ 7.5 1984

The Cold Room poster

A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying ev…

The Cold Room

★ 4.8 1984

Spider's Web poster

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come…

Spider's Web

★ 7.2 1982

Our Winnie poster

Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). The…

Our Winnie

★ 0.0 1982

Intensive Care poster

When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They…

Intensive Care

★ 9.0 1982

The Cause poster

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway an…

The Cause

★ 0.0 1981