Elizabeth Spriggs

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Elizabeth Spriggs

Acting September 18, 1929

Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK

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 Hamle…

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

7.9 2001 Movie
Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

7.4 1995 Movie
Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

7.5 1997 TV Show
Doctor Who

Doctor Who

7.9 1963 TV Show
Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

8.2 1989 TV Show
Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt

8.0 1989 TV Show
Casualty

Casualty

6.2 1986 TV Show
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

8.2 1984 TV Show
Play for Today

Play for Today

6.6 1970 TV Show
Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

6.2 1999 Movie
BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

5.2 1965 TV Show
Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected

6.7 1979 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2009
    Is Anybody There?

    Movie Prudence

  2. 2007
    James Ellis: An Actor's Life

    Movie Herself

  3. 2005
    Jericho

    TV show Ellen Jericho

  4. 2005
    Love Soup

    TV show Penny's Mother (voice)

  5. 2004
    The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

    Movie

  6. 2003
    The Royal

    TV show Dolly Smith

  7. 2002
    Nice Guy Eddie

    TV show Vera McMullen

  8. 2002
    Shackleton

    TV show Janet Stancombe Wills

  9. 2001
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Movie The Fat Lady

  10. 2000
    The Sleeper

    Movie Cath

  11. 2000
    For My Baby

    Movie Olga Jenikova

  12. 2000
    Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

    TV show

  13. 1999
    A Christmas Carol

    Movie Mrs. Riggs

  14. 1999
    Wives and Daughters

    TV show Mrs Goodenough

  15. 1999
    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

    Movie Schultz

  16. 1999
    Alice in Wonderland

    Movie Duchess

More credits
  1. 1998
    The Barber of Siberia

    Movie Perepiolkina

  2. 1997
    Midsomer Murders

    TV show Iris Rainbird

  3. 1997
    Paradise Road

    Movie Mrs. Roberts

  4. 1996
    The Secret Agent

    Movie Winnie's Mother

  5. 1996
    The Snow Queen's Revenge

    Movie Brenda (voice)

  6. 1995
    Sense and Sensibility

    Movie Mrs. Jennings

  7. 1994
    Martin Chuzzlewit

    TV show Mrs Gamp

  8. 1994
    Takin' Over the Asylum

    TV show Grandma

  9. 1994
    A Pinch of Snuff

    Movie Annabelle Andover

  10. 1994
    Middlemarch

    TV show Mrs. Cadwallader

  11. 1993
    The Hour of the Pig

    Movie Madame Langlois

  12. 1993
    The Last Vampyre

    Movie Eileen Mason

  13. 1992
    Anglo Saxon Attitudes

    TV show Inge Middleton

  14. 1992
    Heartbeat

    TV show Rene Kirby

  15. 1992
    The Old Devils

    Movie Dorothy Morgan

  16. 1992
    The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

    TV show Schultz

  17. 1991
    Performance

    TV show Mistress Quickly

  18. 1991
    Soldier Soldier

    TV show Mrs. Henwood

  19. 1991
    Impromptu

    Movie Baroness Laginsky

  20. 1990
    Survival of the Fittest

    Movie Eileen Blackett

  21. 1990
    Jeeves and Wooster

    TV show Aunt Agatha

  22. 1990
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    TV show May

  23. 1989
    Screen One

    TV show Eileen Blackett

  24. 1989
    Tales from the Crypt

    TV show Mrs. Trask