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