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Elizabeth Spriggs
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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 Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include 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 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 Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Richard's Things (1980), Impromptu (1991), Paradise Road (1997) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).
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Heartbeat
BBC Play of the Month
Casualty
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Midsomer Murders
Sherlock Holmes
The Royal
Performance
Doctor Who
Lovejoy
Tales from the Crypt
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Black and Blue
Bergerac
Love Soup
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Wives and Daughters
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Martin Chuzzlewit
All's Well That Ends Well
Strangers and Brothers
Paradise Road
The Dybbuk
Fox
Sense and Sensibility
The Last Vampyre
Intensive Care
Spider's Web
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Survival of the Fittest
The Sleeper
Nice Guy Eddie
Leeds United!
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Devil's Disciple
Simon and the Witch
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