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).
Filmography (99)
Is Anybody There?
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Love Soup
Jericho
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
The Royal- Nice Guy Eddie
Shackleton
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The Sleeper
For My Baby
Wives and Daughters
A Christmas Carol
Alice in Wonderland
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
The Barber of Siberia
Midsomer Murders
Paradise Road
The Snow Queen's Revenge
The Secret Agent
Sense and Sensibility
Martin Chuzzlewit
Takin' Over the Asylum
Middlemarch
A Pinch of Snuff
The Last Vampyre
The Hour of the Pig
Heartbeat
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
The Old Devils
Soldier Soldier
Performance
Impromptu
Jeeves and Wooster
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Survival of the Fittest
Young Charlie Chaplin
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Tales from the Crypt
Screen One
Watching
The Devil's Disciple
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
Simon and the Witch
Lovejoy
Casualty- The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Parker
Time for Murder
Theatre Night
Sherlock Holmes
Sakharov
The Cold Room
Those Glory Glory Days
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Intensive Care
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Objects of Affection
Shine on Harvey Moon
Spider's Web
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Our Winnie
Bergerac
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Cause
Fothergill
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Cribb
Fox
Richard's Things- Fox
The Dybbuk
The Enigma
Julius Caesar
Tales of the Unexpected
Afternoon Off
The BBC Television Shakespeare
BBC2 Play of the Week
Able's Will
Victorian Scandals
Love Letters on Blue Paper- Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
Leeds United!
Playhouse- Black and Blue
- Rust
- Second City Firsts
Play for Today
3 Into 2 Won't Go- All's Well That Ends Well
The Expert
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
BBC Play of the Month
Theatre 625- Festival
Doctor Who