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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 18, 1929
Died
July 2, 2008
Place of Birth
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Elizabeth Jean Williams
- Elisabeth Spriggs
- Elizabeth Jean Spriggs-Manson
- Елізабет Спріггс
Elizabeth Spriggs
3.7 Popularity
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 films include Richard's Things (1980), Impromptu (1991), Paradise Road (1997) and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).
Known For
6.2
Prudence
Is Anybody There?
2009
0.0
Herself
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007
6.5
Ellen Jericho
Jericho
2005
8.0
Penny's Mother (voice)
Love Soup
2005
5.6
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
7.6
Dolly Smith
The Royal
2003
🎬
0.0
Vera McMullen
Nice Guy Eddie
2002
7.1
Janet Stancombe Wills
Shackleton
2002
7.9
The Fat Lady
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
4.0
Cath
The Sleeper
2000
Credits
Is Anybody There?
as Prudence
2009
6.2
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Herself
2007
0.0
Jericho
as Ellen Jericho
2005
6.5
Love Soup
as Penny's Mother (voice)
2005
8.0
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
5.6
The Royal
as Dolly Smith
2003
7.6
🎬
Nice Guy Eddie
as Vera McMullen
2002
0.0
Shackleton
as Janet Stancombe Wills
2002
7.1
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as The Fat Lady
2001
7.9
The Sleeper
as Cath
2000
4.0
For My Baby
as Olga Jenikova
2000
1.5
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000
6.1
A Christmas Carol
as Mrs Riggs
1999
6.9
Wives and Daughters
as Mrs. Goodenough
1999
7.3
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Schultz
1999
4.8
Alice in Wonderland
as Duchess
1999
6.2
The Barber of Siberia
as Perepiolkina
1998
7.1
Midsomer Murders
as Iris Rainbird
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Ursula Gooding
1997
7.5
Paradise Road
as Mrs. Roberts
1997
6.4
The Secret Agent
as Winnie's Mother
1996
5.4
The Snow Queen's Revenge
as Brenda (voice)
1996
5.4
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
1995
7.4
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mrs. Gamp
1994
7.5
Takin' Over the Asylum
as Grandma
1994
8.2
Middlemarch
as Mrs. Cadwallader
1994
7.8
A Pinch of Snuff
as Annabelle Andover
1994
0.0
Class Act
as Harriet Mainwaring
1994
0.0
The Hour of the Pig
as Madame Langlois
1993
6.2
The Last Vampyre
as Eileen Mason
1993
6.9
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Inge Middleton
1992
5.0
Heartbeat
as Rene Kirby
1992
7.0
Heartbeat
as Mrs. Andrews
1992
7.0
The Old Devils
as Dorothy Morgan
1992
0.0
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Schultz
1992
6.5
Soldier Soldier
as Mrs. Henwood
1991
6.4
Impromptu
as Baroness Laginsky
1991
6.1
Survival of the Fittest
as Eileen Blackett
1990
0.0
Jeeves and Wooster
as Aunt Agatha
1990
8.1
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as May
1990
6.7
Tales from the Crypt
as Mrs. Trask
1989
8.0
Young Charlie Chaplin
as Madge Kendal
1989
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs. Leadbetter
1989
8.2
Kind of Living
1988
5.0
Simon and the Witch
as The Witch
1987
5.0
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as Tabby
1987
6.5
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Eva Peterlee
1987
6.2
Watching
as Aunty Peggy
1987
7.8
The Devil's Disciple
as Mrs. Dudgeon
1987
6.0
Casualty
as Barbara Thomas
1986
6.1
Lovejoy
as Daphne Shotley
1986
7.3
🎬
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
as Evelyn Smith
1985
0.0
Time for Murder
as Evelyn Smith
1985
4.0
Parker
as Mrs. Epps
1985
5.3
Sakharov
as Nobel Presenter
1984
7.0
Sherlock Holmes
as Mrs Mason
1984
8.1
The Cold Room
as Frau Hoffman
1984
4.8
Those Glory Glory Days
as School Mistress
1983
4.6
The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Quickly
1982
8.0
Spider's Web
as Mildred Peake
1982
7.4
Objects of Affection
as Cora
1982
7.0
Our Winnie
as Cora
1982
0.0
Intensive Care
as Alice Duckworth
1982
0.0
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
as Mrs. Palmer
1982
0.0
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
as Miss Markland
1982
5.2
Shine on Harvey Moon
as Nan
1982
7.6
Bergerac
as Mary Lou Costain
1981
6.7
Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Lady Eva
1981
5.4
The Cause
as Olive James
1981
0.0
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
as Mrs Radcliffe
1981
0.0
Fothergill
as Middle Class Woman
1981
0.0
Richard's Things
as Mrs. Sells
1980
5.0
Fox
as Connie Fox
1980
5.7
🎬
Fox
as Connie Fox
1980
1.0
The Dybbuk
as Frade
1980
0.0
The Enigma
as Miss Parsons
1980
0.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Aunt May
1979
6.7
Tales of the Unexpected
as Martha
1979
6.7
Julius Caesar
as Calphurnia
1979
8.5
Afternoon Off
as Miss Beckinsale
1979
0.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Calphurnia
1978
6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Mistress Quickly
1978
6.0
Able's Will
as Sarah
1977
0.0
🎬
Victorian Scandals
1976
0.0
Love Letters on Blue Paper
as Sonia Marsden
1976
0.0
The Glittering Prizes
as Lady Frances Davidson
1976
6.0
🎬
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975
0.0
Leeds United!
as Maggie
1974
0.0
🎬
Rust
as Eleanor Hawkes
1973
0.0
🎬
Black and Blue
1973
6.0
Play for Today
as Sonia Marsden
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Olive James
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Alice Duckworth
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Maggie
1970
6.3
3 Into 2 Won't Go
as Marcia
1969
5.0
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
as Mrs Murray
1968
3.0
The Expert
as Mrs. Kyneston
1968
10.0
🎬
All's Well That Ends Well
as Widow
1968
0.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Maud Lowder
1965
5.0
Doctor Who
as Maddy
1963
7.9
🎬
Festival
as Lampito
1963
0.0