Elizabeth Spriggs
| Elizabeth Spriggs | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Elizabeth Jean Williams 18 September 1929 Buxton, Derbyshire, England |
| Died | 2 July 2008 (aged 78) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Kenneth Spriggs (divorced); 1 child Marshall Jones (divorced) Murray Manson (1977–2008; her death) |
Elizabeth Spriggs (18 September 1929 – 2 July 2008) was an English character actress.
Sprigg's 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. 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).
Born in Buxton, Derbyshire in 1929, Spriggs had an unhappy childhood. She studied at the Royal College of Music and taught speech and drama in Coventry. Her first marriage at 21 was a disaster and, in what she called "the most painful decision of my life", left her husband and young daughter to pursue her acting dream. "The desire to act was like a weight within me", she later said, "and I knew if I didn't do anything about it, it would destroy me". She wrote to a repertory in , Cheshire, asking for a job and was taken on. She worked with many companies, including Birmingham and Bristol, before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1962.
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