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).

Cast

Nobel Presenter

Survival of the Fittest

Eileen Blackett

The Secret Agent

Winnie's Mother

3 Into 2 Won't Go

The Barber of Siberia

Sense and Sensibility

The Last Vampyre

Alice Duckworth

Miss Beckinsale

Alice in Wonderland

Richard's Things

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

Lady Chatterley's Lover

All's Well That Ends Well

Is Anybody There?

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Those Glory Glory Days

School Mistress

A Christmas Carol

The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

Baroness Laginsky

The Hour of the Pig

Madame Langlois

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

A Pinch of Snuff

Annabelle Andover

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Mistress Quickly

The Devil's Disciple

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

Love Letters on Blue Paper

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

Middle Class Woman

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

The Snow Queen's Revenge