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Dateline: 8th July, 2008
Elizabeth Spriggs (1929 - 2008) Actress Elizabeth Spriggs, an honorary associate artist of the RSC, has died at the age of 78. Born in Buxton, she studied at the Royal School of Music and taught speech and drama at Coventry Technical College, before joining the Stockport Theatre in her early twenties, leaving her first husband and two year old daughter to do so. She then worked in numerous regional theatres, including Bristol Old Vic and Birmingham Rep, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company when Peter Hall was director. She stayed with the company for fourteen years, playing a variety of roles, including the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (Gertude), Julius Caesar (Calpurnia), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Ford) and Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice). In 1976 she joined Hall at the new National Theatre on the South Bank. Surprisingly, given her talent and reputation, she won only one award in her career, the SOLT award for best supporting actress for Arnold Wesker’s Love Letters on Blue Paper at the National in 1978. Her television career began in the seventies and she played many roles, including Connie in the 1980 series Fox and Nan in Shine on Harvey Moon (1982-85). Other highly regarded TV appearances included Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (for which she was tipped for a BAFTA), Martin Chuzzlewit and Middlemarch. She also appeared as Calpurnia and Mistress Quickly for the BBC Shakespeare series. Her films included Work Is a Four Letter Word, Three Into Two Won’t Go, Sense and Sensibility, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and the yet-to-be shown Is There Anybody There? with Michael Caine. She dies on 2nd July and is survived by her third husband and he daughter.
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