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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Acting History
2009
Is Anybody There? as Prudence
2007James Ellis: An Actor's Life as Herself
2005Jericho as Ellen Jericho
2005Love Soup as Penny's Mother (voice)
2004The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2003The Royal as Dolly Smith
2002Nice Guy Eddie as Vera McMullen
2002Shackleton as Janet Stancombe Wills
2001Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as The Fat Lady
2000The Sleeper as Cath
2000For My Baby as Olga Jenikova
2000Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
1999A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Riggs
1999Wives and Daughters as Mrs. Goodenough
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service as Schultz
1999Alice in Wonderland as Duchess
1998The Barber of Siberia as Perepiolkina
1997Midsomer Murders as Iris Rainbird
1997Midsomer Murders as Ursula Gooding
1997Paradise Road as Mrs. Roberts
1996The Secret Agent as Winnie's Mother
1996The Snow Queen's Revenge as Brenda (voice)
1995Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Jennings
1994Martin Chuzzlewit as Mrs. Gamp
1994Takin' Over the Asylum as Grandma
1994A Pinch of Snuff as Annabelle Andover
1994Middlemarch as Mrs. Cadwallader
1993The Hour of the Pig as Madame Langlois
1993The Last Vampyre as Eileen Mason
1992Anglo Saxon Attitudes as Inge Middleton
1992Heartbeat as Rene Kirby
1992Heartbeat as Mrs. Andrews
1992The Old Devils as Dorothy Morgan
1992The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Schultz
1991Performance as Mistress Quickly
1991Soldier Soldier as Mrs. Henwood
1991Impromptu as Baroness Laginsky
1990Survival of the Fittest as Eileen Blackett
1990Jeeves and Wooster as Aunt Agatha
1990Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit as May
1989Tales from the Crypt as Mrs. Trask
1989Young Charlie Chaplin as Madge Kendal
1989Young Charlie Chaplin
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Leadbetter
1988A Kind of Living
1987Simon and the Witch as The Witch
1987Doctor Who: Paradise Towers as Tabby
1987The Ruth Rendell Mysteries as Eva Peterlee
1987Watching as Aunty Peggy
1987The Devil's Disciple as Mrs. Dudgeon
1986Casualty as Barbara Thomas
1986Lovejoy as Daphne Shotley
1985The Thirteenth Day of Christmas as Evelyn Smith
1985Time for Murder as Evelyn Smith
1985Theatre Night as Mrs. Dudgeon
1985Parker as Mrs. Epps
1984Sakharov as Nobel Presenter
1984Sherlock Holmes as Mrs Mason
1984The Cold Room as Frau Hoffman
1983Those Glory Glory Days as School Mistress
1982The Merry Wives of Windsor as Mistress Quickly
1982Spider's Web as Mildred Peake
1982Objects of Affection as Cora
1982Our Winnie as Cora
1982Intensive Care as Alice Duckworth
1982The Haunting of Cassie Palmer as Mrs. Palmer
1982An Unsuitable Job for a Woman as Miss Markland
1982Shine on Harvey Moon as Nan
1981Bergerac as Mary Lou Costain
1981Lady Chatterley's Lover as Lady Eva
1981The Cause as Olive James
1981The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe as Mrs Radcliffe
1981Fothergill as Middle Class Woman
1980Richard's Things as Mrs. Sells
1980Fox as Connie Fox
1980Fox as Connie Fox
1980The Dybbuk as Frade
1980The Enigma as Miss Parsons
1979Tales of the Unexpected as Aunt May
1979Tales of the Unexpected as Martha
1979Julius Caesar as Calphurnia
1979Afternoon Off as Miss Beckinsale
1977Able's Will as Sarah
1977BBC2 Play of the Week as Sarah
1976Victorian Scandals
1976Love Letters on Blue Paper as Sonia Marsden
1976The Glittering Prizes as Lady Frances Davidson
1975Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1974Leeds United! as Maggie
1974Playhouse as Miss Parsons
1974Playhouse as Middle-Class Woman
1974Playhouse as Mrs. Radcliffe
1973Rust as Eleanor Hawkes
1973Black and Blue as Eleanor Hawkes
1970Play for Today as Sonia Marsden
1970Play for Today as Olive James
1970Play for Today as Alice Duckworth
1970Play for Today as Maggie
19693 Into 2 Won't Go as Marcia
1968Work Is a 4-Letter Word as Mrs Murray
1968The Expert as Mrs. Kyneston
1968All's Well That Ends Well as Widow
1965BBC Play of the Month as Maud Lowder
1964Theatre 625
1963Doctor Who as Maddy
1963Festival as Lampito