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).
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Movies (23)
Is Anybody There?
as Prudence
2009
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Herself
2007
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as The Fat Lady
2001
The Sleeper
as Cath
2000
For My Baby
as Olga Jenikova
2000
A Christmas Carol
as Mrs. Riggs
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Schultz
1999
Alice in Wonderland
as Duchess
1999
The Barber of Siberia
as Perepiolkina
1998
Paradise Road
as Mrs. Roberts
1997
The Secret Agent
as Winnie's Mother
1996
The Snow Queen's Revenge
as Brenda (voice)
1996
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
1995
A Pinch of Snuff
as Annabelle Andover
1994
The Hour of the Pig
as Madame Langlois
1993
The Last Vampyre
as Eileen Mason
1993
The Old Devils
as Dorothy Morgan
1992
Impromptu
as Baroness Laginsky
1991
Survival of the Fittest
as Eileen Blackett
1990
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as Tabby
1987
The Devil's Disciple
as Mrs. Dudgeon
1987
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
as Evelyn Smith
1985
TV Shows (27)
Jericho
as Ellen Jericho
2005
Love Soup
as Penny's Mother (voice)
2005
The Royal
as Dolly Smith
2003
Nice Guy Eddie
as Vera McMullen
2002
Shackleton
as Janet Stancombe Wills
2002
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Wives and Daughters
as Mrs. Goodenough
1999
Midsomer Murders
as Iris Rainbird
1997
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mrs. Gamp
1994
Takin' Over the Asylum
as Grandma
1994
Middlemarch
as Mrs. Cadwallader
1994
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Inge Middleton
1992
Heartbeat
as Rene Kirby
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Schultz
1992
Performance
as Mistress Quickly
1991
Soldier Soldier
as Mrs. Henwood
1991
Jeeves and Wooster
as Aunt Agatha
1990
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as May
1990
Tales from the Crypt
as Mrs. Trask
1989
Young Charlie Chaplin
as Madge Kendal
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. Leadbetter
1989
A Kind of Living
1988
Simon and the Witch
as The Witch
1987
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Eva Peterlee
1987
Watching
as Aunty Peggy
1987
Casualty
as Barbara Thomas
1986
Lovejoy
as Daphne Shotley
1986