Elizabeth Spriggs
Born: 1929-09-18
• 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).
Filmography
Is Anybody There?
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
The Sleeper
For My Baby
A Christmas Carol
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Alice in Wonderland
The Barber of Siberia
Paradise Road
The Secret Agent
The Snow Queen's Revenge
Sense and Sensibility
A Pinch of Snuff
The Hour of the Pig
The Last Vampyre
The Old Devils
Impromptu
Survival of the Fittest
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Devil's Disciple
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The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
Parker
Sakharov
The Cold Room
Those Glory Glory Days
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Spider's Web
Our Winnie
Intensive Care
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Cause
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Fothergill
Richard's Things
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Fox
The Dybbuk
The Enigma
Julius Caesar
Afternoon Off
Able's Will
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Leeds United!
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Rust
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
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All's Well That Ends Well