Elizabeth Spriggs
September 18, 1929 (95 years old) in 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
Credits
- 2009 · Is Anybody There? as Prudence
- 2007 · James Ellis: An Actor's Life as Herself
- 2005 · Jericho as Ellen Jericho
- 2005 · Love Soup as Penny's Mother (voice)
- 2004 · The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as
- 2003 · The Royal as Dolly Smith
- 2002 · Nice Guy Eddie as Vera McMullen
- 2002 · Shackleton as Janet Stancombe Wills
- 2001 · Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as The Fat Lady
- 2000 · The Sleeper as Cath
- 2000 · For My Baby as Olga Jenikova
- 2000 · Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) as
- 1999 · A Christmas Carol as Mrs Riggs
- 1999 · Wives and Daughters as Mrs. Goodenough
- 1999 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service as Schultz
- 1999 · Alice in Wonderland as Duchess
- 1998 · The Barber of Siberia as Perepiolkina
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Iris Rainbird
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Ursula Gooding
- 1997 · Paradise Road as Mrs. Roberts
- 1996 · The Secret Agent as Winnie's Mother
- 1996 · The Snow Queen's Revenge as Brenda (voice)
- 1995 · Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Jennings
- 1994 · Martin Chuzzlewit as Mrs. Gamp
- 1994 · Takin' Over the Asylum as Grandma
- 1994 · Middlemarch as Mrs. Cadwallader
- 1994 · A Pinch of Snuff as Annabelle Andover
- 1993 · The Hour of the Pig as Madame Langlois
- 1993 · The Last Vampyre as Eileen Mason
- 1992 · Anglo Saxon Attitudes as Inge Middleton
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Rene Kirby
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Mrs. Andrews
- 1992 · The Old Devils as Dorothy Morgan
- 1992 · The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Schultz
- 1991 · Performance as Mistress Quickly
- 1991 · Soldier Soldier as Mrs. Henwood
- 1991 · Impromptu as Baroness Laginsky
- 1990 · Survival of the Fittest as Eileen Blackett
- 1990 · Jeeves and Wooster as Aunt Agatha
- 1990 · Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit as May
- 1989 · Tales from the Crypt as Mrs. Trask
- 1989 · Young Charlie Chaplin as Madge Kendal
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs. Leadbetter
- 1988 · Kind of Living as
- 1987 · Simon and the Witch as The Witch
- 1987 ·