Tales of the Unexpected
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Elizabeth Spriggs was born on September 18, 1929 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Sense and Sensibility (1995), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Paradise Road (1997). She was married to Murray Manson, Marshall Jones and Kenneth Spriggs.
Jul 6, 2008 · Sun 6 Jul 2008 19.09 EDT. Elizabeth Spriggs, who has died aged 78, was a tall, blonde, elegant, fresh-faced and versatile actor. Her range embraced the leading stage companies in Shakespeare...
Jul 7, 2008 · 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. A performer who always had her heart set on the stage, Spriggs studied at the Royal School of Music and taught speech and drama at Coventry Technical College before ...
Spriggs – large-scale and capable – and Rosemary Harris – bird-like and a-twitter – made a good pairing as the benevolently murderous sisters in Arsenic and Old Lace (Chichester, 1991 ...
Jul 2, 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.
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).
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).
