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).
Acting
Movie
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as The Fat Lady
2001
Movie
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
1995
TV
Tales from the Crypt
as Mrs. Trask
1989
TV
Doctor Who
as Maddy
1963
TV
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. Leadbetter
1989
Movie
Alice in Wonderland
as Duchess
1999
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Iris Rainbird
1997
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Ursula Gooding
1997
TV
Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs Mason
1984
Movie
A Christmas Carol
as Mrs. Riggs
1999
Movie
The Barber of Siberia
as Perepiolkina
1998
TV
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Schultz
1992
TV
Jeeves and Wooster
as Aunt Agatha
1990
Movie
Paradise Road
as Mrs. Roberts
1997
Movie
Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Lady Eva
1981
TV
Casualty
as Barbara Thomas
1986
Movie
Is Anybody There?
as Prudence
2009
Movie
Impromptu
as Baroness Laginsky
1991
TV
Lovejoy
as Daphne Shotley
1986
TV
Tales of the Unexpected
as Aunt May
1979
TV
Tales of the Unexpected
as Martha
1979
Movie
The Secret Agent
as Winnie's Mother
1996
Movie
The Hour of the Pig
as Madame Langlois
1993
TV
Wives and Daughters
as Mrs Goodenough
1999
