Elizabeth Spriggs


    Starbirth:
    September 18, 1929
    Supernova:
    July 2, 2008
    Birthplace:
    Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
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Overview

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).


MOVIECHARACTERYEAR
Is Anybody There? Prudence 2009
James Ellis: An Actor's Life Herself 2007
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone The Fat Lady 2001
The Sleeper Cath 2000
For My Baby 2000
A Christmas Carol Mrs Riggs 1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service Schultz 1999
Alice in Wonderland Duchess 1999
The Barber of Siberia Perepiolkina 1998
Paradise Road Mrs. Roberts 1997
The Secret Agent Winnie's Mother 1996
Sense and Sensibility Mrs. Jennings 1995
A Pinch of Snuff Annabelle Andover 1994
The Hour of the Pig Madame Langlois 1993
The Last Vampyre Eileen Mason 1993
The Old Devils Dorothy Morgan 1992
Impromptu Baroness Laginsky 1991
Survival of the Fittest Eileen Blackett 1990
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers Tabby 1987
The Devil's Disciple Mrs. Dudgeon 1987
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas Evelyn Smith 1985
Parker Mrs. Epps 1985
Sakharov Nobel Presenter 1984
The Cold Room Frau Hoffman 1984
Those Glory Glory Days School Mistress 1983
The Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Quickly 1982
Spider's Web Mildred Peake 1982
Intensive Care Alice Duckworth 1982
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer Mrs. Palmer 1982
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman Miss Markland 1982
Lady Chatterley's Lover Lady Eva 1981
The Cause Olive James 1981
Richard's Things Mrs. Sells 1980
Fox Connie Fox 1980
The Dybbuk Frade 1980
Julius Caesar Calphurnia 1979
Afternoon Off Miss Beckinsale 1979
Love Letters on Blue Paper Sonia Marsden 1976
Leeds United! Maggie 1974
3 Into 2 Won't Go Marcia 1969
Work Is a 4-Letter Word Mrs Murray 1968
All's Well That Ends Well Widow 1968
SHOWCHARACTERYEAR
Jeeves and Wooster Aunt Agatha <mt>
Bergerac Mary Lou Costain <mt>
Tales of the Unexpected Aunt May <mt>
Heartbeat Rene Kirby <mt>
Watching Aunt Peggy <mt>
Shine on Harvey Moon <blank> <mt>
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Eva Peterlee <mt>
BBC Television Shakespeare <blank> <mt>
Kind of Living <blank> <mt>
Doctor Who Maddy <mt>
Tales from the Crypt Mrs. Trask <mt>
Takin' Over the Asylum Grandma <mt>
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) <blank> <mt>
Lovejoy Daphne Shotley <mt>
Fox <blank> <mt>
Jericho Ellen Jericho <mt>
Play for Today <blank> <mt>
Black and Blue <blank> <mt>
BBC Play of the Month Maud Lowder <mt>
Nice Guy Eddie Vera McMullen <mt>
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac <blank> <mt>
Victorian Scandals <blank> <mt>
Young Charlie Chaplin Madge Kendal <mt>
Anglo Saxon Attitudes Inge Middleton <mt>
Class Act Harriet Mainwaring <mt>
Love Soup Penny's Mother (voice) <mt>
Simon and the Witch The Witch <mt>
Casualty Barbara Thomas <mt>
Martin Chuzzlewit Mrs. Gamp <mt>
Middlemarch Mrs. Cadwallader <mt>
Wives and Daughters Mrs. Goodenough <mt>
Shackleton Janet Stancombe Wills <mt>
Midsomer Murders Iris Rainbird <mt>
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit May <mt>
Objects of Affection Cora <mt>
Tales of the Unexpected Martha <mt>
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Schultz <mt>
Sherlock Holmes Mrs Mason <mt>
The Expert Mrs. Kyneston <mt>
Festival Lampito <mt>
The Glittering Prizes Lady Frances Davidson <mt>
Agatha Christie's Poirot Mrs. Leadbetter <mt>
The Royal Dolly Smith <mt>
Heartbeat Mrs. Andrews <mt>
Midsomer Murders Ursula Gooding <mt>
Time for Murder Evelyn Smith <mt>
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