Elizabeth Spriggs
- Acting
- September 18, 1929 · Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
- July 2, 2008
Biography
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
Filmography
- Is Anybody There? · Prudence
- James Ellis: An Actor's Life · Self
- Jericho · Ellen Jericho
- Love Soup · Penny's Mother (Voice)
- The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
- The Royal · Dolly Smith
- Nice Guy Eddie · Vera McMullen
- Shackleton · Janet Stancombe Wills
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone · The Fat Lady
- The Sleeper · Cath
- For My Baby · Olga Jenikova
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
- A Christmas Carol · Mrs. Riggs
- Wives and Daughters · Mrs Goodenough
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service · Schultz
- Alice in Wonderland · Duchess
- The Barber of Siberia · Perepiolkina
- Midsomer Murders · Iris Rainbird, Ursula Gooding
- Paradise Road · Mrs. Roberts
- The Secret Agent · Winnie's Mother
- The Snow Queen's Revenge · Brenda (Voice)
- Sense and Sensibility · Mrs. Jennings
- Martin Chuzzlewit · Mrs Gamp
- Takin' Over the Asylum · Grandma
- A Pinch of Snuff · Annabelle Andover
- Middlemarch · Mrs. Cadwallader
- The Hour of the Pig · Madame Langlois
- The Last Vampyre · Eileen Mason
- Anglo Saxon Attitudes · Inge Middleton
- Heartbeat · Rene Kirby, Mrs. Andrews
- The Old Devils · Dorothy Morgan
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles · Schultz
- Performance · Mistress Quickly
- Soldier Soldier · Mrs. Henwood
- Impromptu · Baroness Laginsky
- Survival of the Fittest · Eileen Blackett
- Jeeves and Wooster · Aunt Agatha
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit · May
- Screen One · Eileen Blackett
- Tales from the Crypt · Mrs. Trask
- Young Charlie Chaplin · Madge Kendal
- Agatha Christie's Poirot · Mrs. Leadbetter
- Simon and the Witch · The Witch
- Doctor Who: Paradise Towers · Tabby
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries · Eva Peterlee
- Watching · Aunty Peggy
- The Devil's Disciple · Mrs. Dudgeon
- Casualty · Barbara Thomas
- Lovejoy · Daphne Shotley
- The Thirteenth Day of Christmas · Evelyn Smith
- Time for Murder · Evelyn Smith
- Theatre Night · Mrs. Dudgeon
- Parker · Mrs. Epps
- Sakharov · Nobel Presenter
- Sherlock Holmes · Mrs Mason
- The Cold Room · Frau Hoffman
- Those Glory Glory Days · School Mistress
- The Merry Wives of Windsor · Mistress Quickly
- Spider's Web · Mildred Peake
- Our Winnie · Cora
- Objects of Affection · Cora
- Intensive Care · Alice Duckworth
- The Haunting of Cassie Palmer · Mrs. Palmer
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman · Miss Markland
- Shine on Harvey Moon · Nan
- Bergerac · Mary Lou Costain
- Lady Chatterley's Lover · Lady Eva
- The Cause · Olive James
- The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe · Mrs Radcliffe
- Fothergill · Middle Class Woman
- Richard's Things · Mrs. Sells
- Cribb · Mrs Gurney
- Fox · Connie Fox
- Fox · Connie Fox
- The Dybbuk · Frade
- The Enigma · Miss Parsons
- Tales of the Unexpected · Aunt May, Martha
- Julius Caesar · Calphurnia
- Afternoon Off · Miss Beckinsale
- The BBC Television Shakespeare · Mistress Quickly