Elizabeth Spriggs
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).
Movies
Is Anybody There?
Prudence
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Fat Lady
The Sleeper
Cath
For My Baby
Olga Jenikova
A Christmas Carol
Mrs. Riggs
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Schultz
Alice in Wonderland
Duchess
The Barber of Siberia
Perepiolkina
Paradise Road
Mrs. Roberts
The Secret Agent
Winnie's Mother
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Brenda (voice)
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Jennings
A Pinch of Snuff
Annabelle Andover
The Hour of the Pig
Madame Langlois
The Last Vampyre
Eileen Mason
The Old Devils
Dorothy Morgan
Impromptu
Baroness Laginsky
Survival of the Fittest
Eileen Blackett
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Tabby
The Devil's Disciple
Mrs. Dudgeon
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Evelyn Smith
Parker
Mrs. Epps
Sakharov
Nobel Presenter
The Cold Room
Frau Hoffman
Those Glory Glory Days
School Mistress
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mistress Quickly
Spider's Web
Mildred Peake
Our Winnie
Cora
Intensive Care
Alice Duckworth
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Mrs. Palmer
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Miss Markland
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Eva
The Cause
Olive James
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Mrs Radcliffe
Fothergill
Middle Class Woman
Richard's Things
Mrs. Sells
Fox
Connie Fox
The Dybbuk
Frade
The Enigma
Miss Parsons
Julius Caesar
Calphurnia
Afternoon Off
Miss Beckinsale
Able's Will
Sarah
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Sonia Marsden
Leeds United!
Maggie
Rust
Eleanor Hawkes
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Marcia
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Mrs Murray
All's Well That Ends Well
Widow
TV Series
Jericho
Ellen Jericho
1 Episode
Love Soup
Penny's Mother (voice)
1 Episode
The Royal
Dolly Smith
2 Episodes
Nice Guy Eddie
Vera McMullen
6 Episodes
Shackleton
Janet Stancombe Wills
1 Episode
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
1 Episode
Wives and Daughters
Mrs. Goodenough
6 Episodes
Midsomer Murders
Iris Rainbird
1 Episode
Martin Chuzzlewit
Mrs. Gamp
6 Episodes
Takin' Over the Asylum
Grandma
6 Episodes
Middlemarch
Mrs. Cadwallader
6 Episodes
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Inge Middleton
3 Episodes
Heartbeat
Rene Kirby
1 Episode
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Schultz
1 Episode
Performance
Mistress Quickly
1 Episode
Soldier Soldier
Mrs. Henwood
1 Episode
Jeeves and Wooster
Aunt Agatha
2 Episodes
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
May
3 Episodes
Tales from the Crypt
Mrs. Trask
1 Episode
Young Charlie Chaplin
Madge Kendal
1 Episode
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs. Leadbetter
1 Episode
A Kind of Living
26 Episodes
Simon and the Witch
The Witch
25 Episodes
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Eva Peterlee
1 Episode
Watching
Aunty Peggy
5 Episodes
Casualty
Barbara Thomas
1 Episode
Lovejoy
Daphne Shotley
1 Episode
Time for Murder
Evelyn Smith
1 Episode
Theatre Night
Mrs. Dudgeon
1 Episode
Sherlock Holmes
Mrs Mason
1 Episode
Objects of Affection
Cora
1 Episode
Shine on Harvey Moon
Nan
41 Episodes
Bergerac
Mary Lou Costain
1 Episode
Fox
Connie Fox
13 Episodes
Tales of the Unexpected
Aunt May
1 Episode
BBC2 Play of the Week
Sarah
1 Episode
Victorian Scandals
1 Episode
The Glittering Prizes
Lady Frances Davidson
1 Episode
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
6 Episodes
Playhouse
Miss Parsons
1 Episode
Black and Blue
Eleanor Hawkes
1 Episode
Play for Today
Sonia Marsden
1 Episode
The Expert
Mrs. Kyneston
1 Episode
BBC Play of the Month
Maud Lowder
1 Episode
Theatre 625
1 Episode
Doctor Who
Maddy
2 Episodes
Festival
Lampito
1 Episode