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).
Sakharov
(Nobel Presenter)
The Dybbuk
(Frade)
Survival of the Fittest
(Eileen Blackett)
The Secret Agent
(Winnie's Mother)
For My Baby
(Olga Jenikova)
3 Into 2 Won't Go
(Marcia)
Julius Caesar
(Calphurnia)
The Barber of Siberia
(Perepiolkina)
Sense and Sensibility
(Mrs. Jennings)
Leeds United!
(Maggie)
The Last Vampyre
(Eileen Mason)
Intensive Care
(Alice Duckworth)
Afternoon Off
(Miss Beckinsale)
Paradise Road
(Mrs. Roberts)
Alice in Wonderland
(Duchess)
Richard's Things
(Mrs. Sells)
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Rust
(Eleanor Hawkes)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
(Lady Eva)
All's Well That Ends Well
(Widow)
Fox
(Connie Fox)
Is Anybody There?
(Prudence)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(The Fat Lady)
Those Glory Glory Days
(School Mistress)
Spider's Web
(Mildred Peake)
A Christmas Carol
(Mrs Riggs)
Parker
(Mrs. Epps)
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
(Evelyn Smith)
Impromptu
(Baroness Laginsky)
The Hour of the Pig
(Madame Langlois)
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
(Mrs Murray)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
(Miss Markland)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
(Schultz)
A Pinch of Snuff
(Annabelle Andover)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
(Mistress Quickly)
The Devil's Disciple
(Mrs. Dudgeon)
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
(Herself)
The Sleeper
(Cath)
Love Letters on Blue Paper
(Sonia Marsden)
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
(Mrs. Palmer)
The Cause
(Olive James)
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
(Tabby)
The Cold Room
(Frau Hoffman)
The Old Devils
(Dorothy Morgan)
Our Winnie
(Cora)
The Enigma
(Miss Parsons)
Fothergill
(Middle Class Woman)
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
(Mrs Radcliffe)
Able's Will
(Sarah)
Jeeves and Wooster
(Aunt Agatha)
Bergerac
(Mary Lou Costain)
Doctor Who
(Maddy)
Tales from the Crypt
(Mrs. Trask)
Tales of the Unexpected
(Aunt May)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
(Schultz)
Heartbeat
(Rene Kirby)
Takin' Over the Asylum
(Grandma)
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Watching
(Aunt Peggy)
Sherlock Holmes
(Mrs Mason)
Lovejoy
(Daphne Shotley)
Fox
(Connie Fox)
Jericho
(Ellen Jericho)
Shine on Harvey Moon
The Expert
(Mrs. Kyneston)
Play for Today
(Sonia Marsden)
Black and Blue
Festival
(Lampito)
BBC Play of the Month
(Maud Lowder)
The Glittering Prizes
(Lady Frances Davidson)
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
Agatha Christie's Poirot
(Mrs. Leadbetter)
Kind of Living
BBC Television Shakespeare
Nice Guy Eddie
(Vera McMullen)
Victorian Scandals
Young Charlie Chaplin
(Madge Kendal)
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
(Inge Middleton)
Class Act
(Harriet Mainwaring)
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
(Eva Peterlee)
Love Soup
(Penny's Mother (voice))
The Royal
(Dolly Smith)
Simon and the Witch
(The Witch)
Casualty
(Barbara Thomas)
Shackleton
(Janet Stancombe Wills)
Martin Chuzzlewit
(Mrs. Gamp)
Middlemarch
(Mrs. Cadwallader)
Wives and Daughters
(Mrs. Goodenough)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(May)
Midsomer Murders
(Iris Rainbird)
Time for Murder
(Evelyn Smith)
Heartbeat
(Mrs. Andrews)
Soldier Soldier
(Mrs. Henwood)
Midsomer Murders
(Ursula Gooding)
Objects of Affection
(Cora)
Play for Today
(Olive James)
Play for Today
(Alice Duckworth)
Play for Today
(Maggie)
Tales of the Unexpected
(Martha)