Elizabeth Spriggs of Charles Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit" and was Mrs Cadwallader in "Middlemarch" by George Eliot. She continued to work on television, in series like "Heartbeat", "Midsomer Murders" (playing a murder victim in the pilot episode of the series in 1997 and returning in 2006 as the character's identical twin sister) and "Poirot". Her early film appearances included "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" (1968) and "Three into Two Won't Go" (1969), both directed by Peter Hall. Her later character roles included Mrs Jennings in Emma Thompson's Oscar-winning adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility" (1995), a role for which she was nominated for a
Sense and Sensibility (2008 TV series) Marianne Dashwood, two sisters who go on "a voyage of burgeoning sexual and romantic discovery". The series was shot on location in the English counties of Berkshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Devon for two months from April 2007. "Sense and Sensibility" was co-produced by the BBC and American studio WGBH Boston. It was aired in three parts from 1 January 2008 in the United Kingdom and attracted an average of 6 million viewers per episode. The first episode also became one of the top ten most streamed programmes on the BBC iPlayer. "Sense and Sensibility" garnered mostly positive reviews from television