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