Cast
Elizabeth Spriggs
Acting
Cast
Elizabeth Spriggs
Known for
Acting
Born
1929-09-18
From
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Died
2008-07-02
Also known as Elizabeth Jean Williams, Elisabeth Spriggs, Elizabeth Jean Spriggs-Manson
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).
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as The Fat Lady
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Lady Eva
Fox
as Connie Fox
The Barber of Siberia
as Perepiolkina
Impromptu
as Baroness Laginsky
Alice in Wonderland
as Duchess
A Christmas Carol
as Mrs. Riggs
Richard's Things
as Mrs. Sells
Paradise Road
as Mrs. Roberts
The Last Vampyre
as Eileen Mason
The Secret Agent
as Winnie's Mother
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Schultz
The Hour of the Pig
as Madame Langlois
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Quickly
Is Anybody There?
as Prudence
The Snow Queen's Revenge
as Brenda (voice)
Intensive Care
as Alice Duckworth
Sakharov
as Nobel Presenter
Parker
as Mrs. Epps
Julius Caesar
as Calphurnia
The Cold Room
as Frau Hoffman
Spider's Web
as Mildred Peake
Able's Will
as Sarah
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Afternoon Off
as Miss Beckinsale
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as Tabby
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
as Miss Markland
Love Letters on Blue Paper
as Sonia Marsden
Those Glory Glory Days
as School Mistress
3 Into 2 Won't Go
as Marcia
Our Winnie
as Cora
The Old Devils
as Dorothy Morgan
Leeds United!
as Maggie
The Sleeper
as Cath
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
as Evelyn Smith
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Herself
Fothergill
as Middle Class Woman
The Cause
as Olive James
All's Well That Ends Well
as Widow
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
as Mrs Murray
For My Baby
as Olga Jenikova
Survival of the Fittest
as Eileen Blackett
A Pinch of Snuff
as Annabelle Andover
The Devil's Disciple
as Mrs. Dudgeon
The Enigma
as Miss Parsons
The Dybbuk
as Frade
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
as Mrs Radcliffe
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
as Mrs. Palmer
Rust
as Eleanor Hawkes