Elizabeth Spriggs
Born 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 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).
Notable Appearances
Movies
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Sense and Sensibility
Alice in Wonderland
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Barber of Siberia
The Secret Agent
Paradise Road
A Christmas Carol
Impromptu
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Hour of the Pig
Spider's Web
The Devil's Disciple
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
The Last Vampyre
Is Anybody There?
Our Winnie
Richard's Things
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
A Pinch of Snuff
The Old Devils
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Intensive Care
Survival of the Fittest
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Those Glory Glory Days
Julius Caesar
3 Into 2 Won't Go
The Sleeper
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Able's Will
Sakharov
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
The Cold Room
Parker
Afternoon Off
The Cause
TV Shows
Play for Today
Tales of the Unexpected
Sherlock Holmes
The BBC Television Shakespeare
BBC Play of the Month
Heartbeat
Theatre 625
Bergerac
Playhouse
Tales from the Crypt
Performance
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Soldier Soldier
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Jeeves and Wooster
The Expert
BBC2 Play of the Week
Lovejoy
Screen One
Shine on Harvey Moon
Watching
Wives and Daughters
Love Soup
Middlemarch
Cribb
Takin' Over the Asylum
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Time for Murder
Shackleton
Fox
Jericho
Objects of Affection
Victorian Scandals
Theatre Night
Martin Chuzzlewit
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Young Charlie Chaplin
Simon and the Witch
