Elizabeth Spriggs

Actor · Crew· 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).

Known For

The roles that explain the career.

Full credits

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2001

Sense and Sensibility

The Barber of Siberia

Perepiolkina · 1998

Paradise Road

Mrs. Roberts · 1997

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Eva · 1981

Is Anybody There?

Prudence · 2009

Filmography

31 credits across 2 departments.

Year	Title	Role	Type
2009	Is Anybody There?	Prudence	Film
2004	The Queen of Sheba's Pearls		Film
2000	For My Baby	Olga Jenikova	Film
1999	A Christmas Carol	Mrs. Riggs	Film
1999	Alice in Wonderland	Duchess	Film
1999	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service	Schultz	Film
1998	The Barber of Siberia	Perepiolkina	Film
1997	Paradise Road	Mrs. Roberts	Film
1996	The Snow Queen's Revenge	Brenda (voice)	Film
1996	The Secret Agent	Winnie's Mother	Film
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Mrs. Jennings	Film
1994	Takin' Over the Asylum	Grandma	TV
1994	Middlemarch	Mrs. Cadwallader	TV
1993	The Last Vampyre	Eileen Mason	Film
1993	The Hour of the Pig	Madame Langlois	Film
1991	Impromptu	Baroness Laginsky	Film
1990	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	May	TV
1987	Doctor Who: Paradise Towers	Tabby	Film
1987	The Devil's Disciple	Mrs. Dudgeon	Film
1985	The Thirteenth Day of Christmas	Evelyn Smith	Film
1984	The Cold Room	Frau Hoffman	Film
1983	Those Glory Glory Days	School Mistress	Film
1982	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Mistress Quickly	Film
1982	The Haunting of Cassie Palmer	Mrs. Palmer	TV
1982	Intensive Care	Alice Duckworth	Film
1982	Shine on Harvey Moon	Nan	TV
1981	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Lady Eva	Film
1980	Richard's Things	Mrs. Sells	Film
1980	Fox	Connie Fox	TV
1979	Julius Caesar	Calphurnia	Film
1968	Work Is a 4-Letter Word	Mrs Murray	Film

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