Elizabeth Spriggs (18 September 1929 – 2 July 2008) was an Olivier Award-winning and BAFTA Award-nominated English character actress.
Born in Buxton as Elizabeth Jean Williams, Spriggs' longest role on British television was as Nan on Shine on Harvey Moon. She also appeared in Doctor Who and in the BBC dramatisations of Our Mutual Friend and Martin Chuzzlewit, both by Charles Dickens, and George Eliot's Middlemarch. In children's television she a...
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Elizabeth Spriggs (18 September 1929 – 2 July 2008) was an Olivier Award-winning and BAFTA Award-nominated English character actress.
Born in Buxton as Elizabeth Jean Williams, Spriggs' longest role on British television was as Nan on Shine on Harvey Moon. She also appeared in Doctor Who and in the BBC dramatisations of Our Mutual Friend and Martin Chuzzlewit, both by Charles Dickens, and George Eliot's Middlemarch. In children's television she appeared as the title witch in the BBC's Simon and the Witch (1987). She made frequent appearances as a supporting player in British television drama and comedy series.
Spriggs also made two appearances on the long running murder mystery series, Midsomer Murders, appearing in the pilot episode (Killings At Badgers Drift) as Iris Rainbird in 1997 and then again as the identical twin sister (Ursula Gooding) of the latter character in the ninth series in 2005. Spriggs' appearances on Midsomer have been with Richard Cant who played her son both...
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