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) stepped out of the shadows of two formidable predecessors: Ang Lee's gorgeous 1995 film version of the novel, and scriptwriter Andrew Davies's own masterpiece, "Pride and Prejudice"." Davies enjoyed Morahan's "luminous" performance as Elinor, as well as Williams and Morrissey's turns as Sir John and Colonel Brandon respectively, although she thought the opening scene was "misconceived". Davies' colleague, James Walton, proclaimed, "In the end, this "Sense and Sensibility" was perhaps brilliantly competent rather than surpassingly brilliant. Nevertheless, it still proved easily good enough to get the costume-drama year off to a hugely enjoyable start." The crew of "Sense and Sensibility"