Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 18, 1929
Died
Jul 02, 2008
Place of Birth
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Credits
100 titles
Elizabeth Spriggs
Biography
Elizabeth Jean Spriggs -Manson (née Williams) was an English character actress. Her 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. Her best known role in film was as Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include Richard's Things (1980), Impromptu (1991), Paradise Road (1997) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).
Known For
Filmography
Is Anybody There?
Prudence
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Herself
Jericho
Ellen Jericho
Love Soup
Penny's Mother (voice)
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
The Royal
Dolly Smith
Nice Guy Eddie
Vera McMullen
Shackleton
Janet Stancombe Wills
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Fat Lady
The Sleeper
Cath
For My Baby
Olga Jenikova
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
A Christmas Carol
Mrs. Riggs
Wives and Daughters
Mrs Goodenough
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Schultz
Alice in Wonderland
Duchess
The Barber of Siberia
Perepiolkina
Midsomer Murders
Iris Rainbird
Paradise Road
Mrs. Roberts
The Secret Agent
Winnie's Mother
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Brenda (voice)
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mrs Gamp
Takin' Over the Asylum
Grandma
A Pinch of Snuff
Annabelle Andover
Middlemarch
Mrs. Cadwallader
The Hour of the Pig
Madame Langlois
The Last Vampyre
Eileen Mason
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Inge Middleton
Heartbeat
Rene Kirby
The Old Devils
Dorothy Morgan
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Schultz
Performance
Mistress Quickly
Soldier Soldier
Mrs. Henwood
Impromptu
Baroness Laginsky
Survival of the Fittest
Eileen Blackett
Jeeves and Wooster
Aunt Agatha
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
May
Screen One
Eileen Blackett
Tales from the Crypt
Mrs. Trask
Young Charlie Chaplin
Madge Kendal
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs. Leadbetter
Simon and the Witch
The Witch
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Tabby
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Eva Peterlee
Watching
Aunty Peggy
The Devil's Disciple
Mrs. Dudgeon
Casualty
Barbara Thomas
Lovejoy
Daphne Shotley
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Evelyn Smith