
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