Elizabeth Spriggs

Known for: Acting

Born: 1929-09-18 – 2008-07-02 (aged 78)

From: 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 (99)

MOVIE★ 6.3
Is Anybody There?
2009
as Prudence
MOVIE
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
as Herself
TV★ 7.3
Jericho
2005
as Ellen Jericho
TV★ 8.6
Love Soup
2005
as Penny's Mother (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
TV★ 7.8
The Royal
2003
as Dolly Smith
TV★ 10.0
Nice Guy Eddie
2002
as Vera McMullen
TV★ 7.2
Shackleton
2002
as Janet Stancombe Wills
MOVIE★ 7.9
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as The Fat Lady
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Sleeper
2000
as Cath
MOVIE★ 3.8
For My Baby
2000
as Olga Jenikova
TV★ 6.8
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
MOVIE★ 7.0
A Christmas Carol
1999
as Mrs. Riggs
TV★ 7.3
Wives and Daughters
1999
as Mrs Goodenough
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as Schultz
MOVIE★ 6.2
Alice in Wonderland
1999
as Duchess
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Barber of Siberia
1998
as Perepiolkina
TV★ 7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Iris Rainbird
MOVIE★ 6.3
Paradise Road
1997
as Mrs. Roberts
MOVIE★ 5.6
The Secret Agent
1996
as Winnie's Mother
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996
as Brenda (voice)
MOVIE★ 7.4
Sense and Sensibility
1995
as Mrs. Jennings
TV★ 8.4
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
as Mrs Gamp
TV★ 8.4
Takin' Over the Asylum
1994
as Grandma
MOVIE
A Pinch of Snuff
1994
as Annabelle Andover
TV★ 7.9
Middlemarch
1994
as Mrs. Cadwallader
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Madame Langlois
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Last Vampyre
1993
as Eileen Mason
TV★ 5.0
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
as Inge Middleton
TV★ 7.2
Heartbeat
1992
as Rene Kirby
MOVIE
The Old Devils
1992
as Dorothy Morgan
TV★ 6.5
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as Schultz
TV★ 6.3
Performance
1991
as Mistress Quickly
TV★ 6.9
Soldier Soldier
1991
as Mrs. Henwood
MOVIE★ 6.1
Impromptu
1991
as Baroness Laginsky
MOVIE
Survival of the Fittest
1990
as Eileen Blackett
TV★ 8.1
Jeeves and Wooster
1990
as Aunt Agatha
TV★ 6.6
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
as May
TV★ 7.2
Screen One
1989
as Eileen Blackett
TV★ 8.0
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Mrs. Trask
TV★ 10.0
Young Charlie Chaplin
1989
as Madge Kendal
TV★ 8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Mrs. Leadbetter
TV★ 6.0
Simon and the Witch
1987
as The Witch
MOVIE★ 6.5
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
as Tabby
TV★ 6.6
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987
as Eva Peterlee
TV★ 8.3
Watching
1987
as Aunty Peggy
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Devil's Disciple
1987
as Mrs. Dudgeon
TV★ 6.2
Casualty
1986
as Barbara Thomas
TV★ 7.4
Lovejoy
1986
as Daphne Shotley
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985
as Evelyn Smith
TV★ 4.0
Time for Murder
1985
as Evelyn Smith
TV
Theatre Night
1985
as Mrs. Dudgeon
MOVIE★ 6.3
Parker
1985
as Mrs. Epps
MOVIE★ 7.5
Sakharov
1984
as Nobel Presenter
TV★ 8.2
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Mrs Mason
MOVIE★ 4.8
The Cold Room
1984
as Frau Hoffman
MOVIE★ 5.3
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
as School Mistress
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982
as Mistress Quickly
MOVIE★ 7.2
Spider's Web
1982
as Mildred Peake
MOVIE
Our Winnie
1982
as Cora
TV★ 8.0
Objects of Affection
1982
as Cora
MOVIE★ 9.0
Intensive Care
1982
as Alice Duckworth
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982
as Mrs. Palmer
MOVIE★ 5.4
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982
as Miss Markland
TV★ 7.7
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
as Nan
TV★ 6.7
Bergerac
1981
as Mary Lou Costain
MOVIE★ 5.5
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981
as Lady Eva
MOVIE
The Cause
1981
as Olive James
MOVIE
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981
as Mrs Radcliffe
MOVIE
Fothergill
1981
as Middle Class Woman
MOVIE★ 4.9
Richard's Things
1980
as Mrs. Sells
TV★ 8.0
Cribb
1980
as Mrs Gurney
MOVIE★ 1.0
Fox
1980
as Connie Fox
TV★ 6.5
Fox
1980
as Connie Fox
MOVIE
The Dybbuk
1980
as Frade
MOVIE
The Enigma
1980
as Miss Parsons
TV★ 6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Aunt May
MOVIE★ 8.7
Julius Caesar
1979
as Calphurnia
MOVIE
Afternoon Off
1979
as Miss Beckinsale
TV★ 6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Mistress Quickly
MOVIE
Able's Will
1977
as Sarah
TV★ 7.0
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
as Sarah
TV★ 10.0
Victorian Scandals
1976
as Hannah Cullwick
MOVIE★ 8.0
Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976
as Sonia Marsden
TV
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975
MOVIE★ 10.0
Leeds United!
1974
as Maggie
TV★ 7.0
Playhouse
1974
as Miss Parsons
TV
Second City Firsts
1973
as Zena Pool
MOVIE
Rust
1973
as Eleanor Hawkes
TV★ 6.5
Black and Blue
1973
as Eleanor Hawkes
TV★ 6.6
Play for Today
1970
as Sonia Marsden
MOVIE★ 5.0
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
as Marcia
MOVIE★ 6.0
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968
as Mrs Murray
TV★ 9.0
The Expert
1968
as Mrs. Kyneston
MOVIE★ 10.0
All's Well That Ends Well
1968
as Widow
TV★ 5.3
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Maud Lowder
TV★ 7.2
Theatre 625
1964
TV★ 7.9
Doctor Who
1963
as Maddy
TV★ 8.0
Festival
1963
as Lampito