Elizabeth Spriggs
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).
97 acting credits
Acting · 97
Midsomer Murders
1997
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Doctor Who
1963
Casualty
1986
Play for Today
1970
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Heartbeat
1992
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Sherlock Holmes
1984
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Bergerac
1981
Playhouse
1974
Theatre 625
1964
Soldier Soldier
1991
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
Lovejoy
1986
Performance
1991
The Expert
1968
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Festival
1963
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
Watching
1987
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Screen One
1989
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
Wives and Daughters
1999
Middlemarch
1994
Shackleton
2002
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
Love Soup
2005
Theatre Night
1985
Fox
1980
Jericho
2005
Cribb
1980
Time for Murder
1985
Alice in Wonderland
1999
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
Victorian Scandals
1976
Black and Blue
1973
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
Takin' Over the Asylum
1994
The Barber of Siberia
1998
A Christmas Carol
1999
Simon and the Witch
1987
Objects of Affection
1982
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989
Paradise Road
1997
Nice Guy Eddie
2002
The Secret Agent
1996
Fox
1980
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975
Impromptu
1991
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
The Royal
2003
Is Anybody There?
2009
The Hour of the Pig
1993
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982
Richard's Things
1980
The Last Vampyre
1993
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996
Spider's Web
1982
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
The Sleeper
2000
Intensive Care
1982
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
Fothergill
1981
Afternoon Off
1979
The Old Devils
1992
The Devil's Disciple
1987
Julius Caesar
1979
Sakharov
1984
Our Winnie
1982
Parker
1985
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968
Leeds United!
1974
The Enigma
1980
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
Able's Will
1977
The Cold Room
1984
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
For My Baby
2000
The Dybbuk
1980
Survival of the Fittest
1990
Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976
Rust
1973
The Cause
1981
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985