Elizabeth Spriggs
Acting
🎂 1929-09-18
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).
Cast credits(106)
Iris Rainbird
1997
Ursula Gooding
1997
Maddy
1963
Sonia Marsden
1970
Olive James
1970
Alice Duckworth
1970
Maggie
1970
Barbara Thomas
1986
Mrs. Leadbetter
1989
Maud Lowder
1965
Miss Parsons
1974
Middle-Class Woman
1974
Mrs. Radcliffe
1974
Schultz
1992
Mrs. Trask
1989
Mary Lou Costain
1981
Calphurnia
1978
Mistress Quickly
1978
Aunt May
1979
Martha
1979
Mrs Mason
1984
The Fat Lady
2001
Mrs. Henwood
1991
Mistress Quickly
1991
Sarah
1977
Eva Peterlee
1987
Mrs. Kyneston
1968
Rene Kirby
1992
Mrs. Andrews
1992
Mrs. Cadwallader
1994
Daphne Shotley
1986
Nan
1982
Mrs. Goodenough
1999
Grandma
1994
Aunt Agatha
1990
Penny's Mother (voice)
2005
Aunty Peggy
1987
Harriet Mainwaring
1994
Madge Kendal
1989
The Witch
1987
Ellen Jericho
2005
Inge Middleton
1992
May
1990
Vera McMullen
2002
Janet Stancombe Wills
2002
Mrs. Jennings
1995
Lady Frances Davidson
1976
1975
1976
2000
Cora
1982
Duchess
1999
Lady Eva
1981
Perepiolkina
1998
Lampito
1963
Evelyn Smith
1985
1973
Mrs. Gamp
1994
Dolly Smith
2003
Connie Fox
1980
Winnie's Mother
1996
Mrs Riggs
1999
Mrs. Roberts
1997
Baroness Laginsky
1991
Eileen Mason
1993
1988
Mrs. Sells
1980
Tabby
1987
Madame Langlois
1993
Nobel Presenter
1984
Prudence
2009
Schultz
1999
Mistress Quickly
1982
Miss Markland
1982
Brenda (voice)
1996
Dorothy Morgan
1992
Frau Hoffman
1984
Miss Parsons
1980
School Mistress
1983
Mildred Peake
1982
2004
Marcia
1969
Olga Jenikova
2000
Cath
2000
Mrs. Epps
1985
Middle Class Woman
1981
Sonia Marsden
1976
Herself
2007
Calphurnia
1979
Mrs Murray
1968
Miss Beckinsale
1979
Cora
1982
Mrs. Dudgeon
1987
Connie Fox
1980
Annabelle Andover
1994
Maggie
1974
Olive James
1981
Eleanor Hawkes
1973
Alice Duckworth
1982
Frade
1980
Mrs. Palmer
1982
Evelyn Smith
1985
Mrs Radcliffe
1981
Sarah
1977
Widow
1968
Eileen Blackett
1990