Elizabeth Spriggs

Known for: Acting
Born: September 18, 1929, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Died: July 2, 2008
Movies: 50

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).

Best-Known Movies

7.9

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2001

7.4

Sense and Sensibility

1995

6.2

Alice in Wonderland

1999

7.0

A Christmas Carol

1999

7.1

The Barber of Siberia

1998

5.4

Lady Chatterley's Lover

1981

6.3

Paradise Road

1997

6.3

Is Anybody There?

2009

6.1

Impromptu

1991

5.6

The Secret Agent

1996

Filmography

2009	Is Anybody There?	Prudence
2007	James Ellis: An Actor's Life	Herself
2004	The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2001	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	The Fat Lady
2000	The Sleeper	Cath
2000	For My Baby	Olga Jenikova
1999	A Christmas Carol	Mrs. Riggs
1999	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service	Schultz
1999	Alice in Wonderland	Duchess
1998	The Barber of Siberia	Perepiolkina
1997	Paradise Road	Mrs. Roberts
1996	The Secret Agent	Winnie's Mother
1996	The Snow Queen's Revenge	Brenda (voice)
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Mrs. Jennings
1994	A Pinch of Snuff	Annabelle Andover
1993	The Hour of the Pig	Madame Langlois
1993	The Last Vampyre	Eileen Mason
1992	The Old Devils	Dorothy Morgan
1991	Impromptu	Baroness Laginsky
1990	Survival of the Fittest	Eileen Blackett
1987	Doctor Who: Paradise Towers	Tabby
1987	The Devil's Disciple	Mrs. Dudgeon
1985	The Thirteenth Day of Christmas	Evelyn Smith
1985	Parker	Mrs. Epps
1984	Sakharov	Nobel Presenter
1984	The Cold Room	Frau Hoffman
1983	Those Glory Glory Days	School Mistress
1982	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Mistress Quickly
1982	Spider's Web	Mildred Peake
1982	Our Winnie	Cora
1982	Intensive Care	Alice Duckworth
1982	The Haunting of Cassie Palmer	Mrs. Palmer
1982	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman	Miss Markland
1981	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Lady Eva
1981	The Cause	Olive James
1981	The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe	Mrs Radcliffe
1981	Fothergill	Middle Class Woman
1980	Richard's Things	Mrs. Sells
1980	Fox	Connie Fox
1980	The Dybbuk	Frade
1980	The Enigma	Miss Parsons
1979	Julius Caesar	Calphurnia
1979	Afternoon Off	Miss Beckinsale
1977	Able's Will	Sarah
1976	Love Letters on Blue Paper	Sonia Marsden
1974	Leeds United!	Maggie
1973	Rust	Eleanor Hawkes
1969	3 Into 2 Won't Go	Marcia
1968	Work Is a 4-Letter Word	Mrs Murray
1968	All's Well That Ends Well	Widow

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