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Jul 6, 2008 · Obituary. Elizabeth Spriggs. Versatile character actor who played a host of matronly roles on stage and screen. Dennis Barker. Sun 6 Jul 2008 19.09 EDT. Elizabeth Spriggs, who has died aged...
Jul 2, 2008 · 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).
Never a shrinking violet on or off the stage, Elizabeth Spriggs was often seen at the peak of her form (and often for the Royal Shakespeare Company of which she was a crucial early member) as...
Jul 7, 2008 · Spriggs died on 2 July 2008. She is survived by her third husband, Murray Manson, and daughter Wendy. MA. Elizabeth Spriggs, the skilled character actress who forged a long and successful career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, died last week at the age of 78.
Jul 2, 2008 · Biography. 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.
Jul 3, 2008 · Elizabeth Spriggs, who died on Wednesday aged 78, was a versatile actress on stage and screen, and became familiar to television viewers in the role of Nan in Shine On Harvey Moon.
Elizabeth Spriggs. Actress. 17 September 1929 to 1 July 2008. A character actress active on stage and screen, Spriggs shone most especially in period dramas. Her credits included BBC adaptations of Martin Chuzzlewit (1994) and Middlemarch (1994), and the Ang Lee feature Pride & Prejudice (1995).
