Elizabeth Spriggs
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday18 September 1929
Died2 July 2008 (age 78)
Place of birthBuxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Known credits100
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 P…
Is Anybody There?
2009 · Prudence
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007 · Herself
Jericho
2005 · Ellen Jericho
Love Soup
2005 · Penny's Mother (voice)
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
The Royal
2003 · Dolly Smith
Nice Guy Eddie
2002 · Vera McMullen
Shackleton
2002 · Janet Stancombe Wills
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · The Fat Lady
The Sleeper
2000 · Cath
For My Baby
2000 · Olga Jenikova
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
A Christmas Carol
1999 · Mrs. Riggs
Wives and Daughters
1999 · Mrs Goodenough
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999 · Schultz
Alice in Wonderland
1999 · Duchess
The Barber of Siberia
1998 · Perepiolkina
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Iris Rainbird
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Ursula Gooding
Paradise Road
1997 · Mrs. Roberts
The Secret Agent
1996 · Winnie's Mother
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996 · Brenda (voice)
Sense and Sensibility
1995 · Mrs. Jennings
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994 · Mrs Gamp
Takin' Over the Asylum
1994 · Grandma
A Pinch of Snuff
1994 · Annabelle Andover
Middlemarch
1994 · Mrs. Cadwallader
The Hour of the Pig
1993 · Madame Langlois
The Last Vampyre
1993 · Eileen Mason
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992 · Inge Middleton
Heartbeat
1992 · Rene Kirby
Heartbeat
1992 · Mrs. Andrews
The Old Devils
1992 · Dorothy Morgan
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · Schultz
Performance
1991 · Mistress Quickly
Soldier Soldier
1991 · Mrs. Henwood
Impromptu
1991 · Baroness Laginsky
Survival of the Fittest
1990 · Eileen Blackett
Jeeves and Wooster
1990 · Aunt Agatha
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990 · May
Screen One
1989 · Eileen Blackett
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Mrs. Trask
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989 · Madge Kendal
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Mrs. Leadbetter
Simon and the Witch
1987 · The Witch
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987 · Tabby
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987 · Eva Peterlee
Watching
1987 · Aunty Peggy
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