Elizabeth Spriggs
Birthday
1929/09/18
Day of death
2008/07/02 (78 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Also know as
Elizabeth Jean Williams, Elisabeth Spriggs, Elizabeth Jean Spriggs-Manson, Елізабет Спріггс
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 film...Read more
Acting
(1984) Sakharov
as Nobel Presenter
(1980) The Dybbuk
as Frade
(1990) Survival of the Fittest
as Eileen Blackett
(1996) The Secret Agent
as Winnie's Mother
(2000) For My Baby
as Olga Jenikova
(1969) 3 Into 2 Won't Go
as Marcia
(1979) Julius Caesar
as Calphurnia
(1998) The Barber of Siberia
as Perepiolkina
(1995) Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
(1974) Leeds United!
as Maggie
(1993) The Last Vampyre
as Eileen Mason
(1982) Intensive Care
as Alice Duckworth
(1979) Afternoon Off
as Miss Beckinsale
(1997) Paradise Road
as Mrs. Roberts
(1999) Alice in Wonderland
as Duchess
(1980) Richard's Things
as Mrs. Sells
(2004) The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as ---
(1973) Rust
as Eleanor Hawkes
(1981) Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Lady Eva
(1968) All's Well That Ends Well
as Widow
(1980) Fox
as Connie Fox
(2009) Is Anybody There?
as Prudence
(2001) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as The Fat Lady
(1983) Those Glory Glory Days
as School Mistress
(1982) Spider's Web
as Mildred Peake
(1999) A Christmas Carol
as Mrs Riggs
(1985) Parker
as Mrs. Epps
(1985) The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
as Evelyn Smith
(1991) Impromptu
as Baroness Laginsky
(1993) The Hour of the Pig
as Madame Langlois
(1968) Work Is a 4-Letter Word
as Mrs Murray
(1982) An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
as Miss Markland
(2002) The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Schultz
(1994) A Pinch of Snuff
as Annabelle Andover
(1982) The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Quickly
(1987) The Devil's Disciple
as Mrs. Dudgeon
(2007) James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Herself
(2000) The Sleeper
as Cath
(1976) Love Letters on Blue Paper
as Sonia Marsden
(1982) The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
as Mrs. Palmer
(1981) The Cause
as Olive James
(1987) Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as Tabby
(1984) The Cold Room
as Frau Hoffman
(1992) The Old Devils
as Dorothy Morgan
(1982) Our Winnie
as Cora
(1980) The Enigma
as Miss Parsons
(1981) Fothergill
as Middle Class Woman
(1981) The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
as Mrs Radcliffe
(1977) Able's Will
as Sarah
(1996) The Snow Queen's Revenge
as Brenda (voice)
(1990) Jeeves and Wooster
as Aunt Agatha
(1981) Bergerac
as Mary Lou Costain
(1963) Doctor Who
as Maddy
(1989) Tales from the Crypt
as Mrs. Trask
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Aunt May
(1992) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Schultz
(1992) Heartbeat
as Rene Kirby
(1994) Takin' Over the Asylum
as Grandma
(1987) Watching
as Aunt Peggy
(2000) Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
as ---
(1984) Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs Mason
(1986) Lovejoy
as Daphne Shotley
(1980) Fox
as Connie Fox
(2005) Jericho
as Ellen Jericho
(1982) Shine on Harvey Moon
as ---
(1968) The Expert
as Mrs. Kyneston
(1970) Play for Today
as Sonia Marsden
(1973) Black and Blue
as ---
(1963) Festival
as Lampito
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Maud Lowder
(1976) The Glittering Prizes
as Lady Frances Davidson
(1975) Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
as ---
(1989) Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. Leadbetter
(1988) Kind of Living
as ---
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as ---
(2002) Nice Guy Eddie
as Vera McMullen
(1989) Young Charlie Chaplin
as Madge Kendal
(1976) Victorian Scandals
as ---
(1992) Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Inge Middleton
(1994) Class Act
as Harriet Mainwaring
(1987) The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Eva Peterlee
(2005) Love Soup
as Penny's Mother (voice)
(2003) The Royal
as Dolly Smith
(1987) Simon and the Witch
as The Witch
(1986) Casualty
as Barbara Thomas
(2002) Shackleton
as Janet Stancombe Wills
(1994) Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mrs. Gamp
(1994) Middlemarch
as Mrs. Cadwallader
(1999) Wives and Daughters
as Mrs. Goodenough
(1990) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as May
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Iris Rainbird
(1985) Time for Murder
as Evelyn Smith
(1992) Heartbeat
as Mrs. Andrews
(1991) Soldier Soldier
as Mrs. Henwood
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Ursula Gooding
(1982) Objects of Affection
as Cora
(1970) Play for Today
as Olive James
(1970) Play for Today
as Alice Duckworth
(1970) Play for Today
as Maggie
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Martha
(1987) Watching
as Aunty Peggy