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).

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

7.9

Sense and Sensibility

7.4

Tales from the Crypt

7.9

Doctor Who

7.9

Agatha Christie's Poirot

8.1

Alice in Wonderland

6.3

Midsomer Murders

7.5

Sherlock Holmes

8.1

A Christmas Carol

6.9

The Barber of Siberia

7.1

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

6.5

Jeeves and Wooster

8.0

Paradise Road

6.4

Casualty

6.0

Lady Chatterley's Lover

5.4

Is Anybody There?

6.2

Impromptu

6.1

Lovejoy

7.3

Tales of the Unexpected

6.7

The Secret Agent

5.3

The Hour of the Pig

6.3

Wives and Daughters

7.3

Shackleton

7.0

Heartbeat

7.0

The Last Vampyre

6.9

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

6.7

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

4.8

Bergerac

6.6

Takin' Over the Asylum

8.2

Middlemarch

7.8

Soldier Soldier

6.4

Richard's Things

5.0

The Snow Queen's Revenge

5.5

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

6.2

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

5.7

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

6.1

The Royal

7.6

Play for Today

6.1

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

5.6

BBC Play of the Month

5.0

3 Into 2 Won't Go

5.0

Those Glory Glory Days

4.6

Watching

7.8

Spider's Web

7.4

Shine on Harvey Moon

7.7

The BBC Television Shakespeare

5.2

Love Soup

8.0

Jericho

6.5

Parker

5.3

The Cold Room

3.3

Fox

5.7

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

5.0

Julius Caesar

8.5

The Merry Wives of Windsor

8.0

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

6.5

The Expert

9.5

The Glittering Prizes

6.0

Martin Chuzzlewit

7.5

Sakharov

7.0

For My Baby

2.0

Fox

1.0

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

3.0

The Devil's Disciple

6.0

The Sleeper

4.0

Black and Blue

6.0

Kind of Living

5.0

Simon and the Witch

5.0

Time for Murder

4.0

Objects of Affection

7.0

The Dybbuk

0.0

Survival of the Fittest

0.0

Leeds United!

0.0

Intensive Care

0.0

Afternoon Off

0.0

Rust

0.0

All's Well That Ends Well

0.0

The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

0.0

A Pinch of Snuff

0.0

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

0.0

Love Letters on Blue Paper

0.0

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

0.0

The Cause

0.0

The Old Devils

0.0

Our Winnie

0.0

The Enigma

0.0

Fothergill

0.0

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

0.0

Able's Will

0.0

Festival

0.0

Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

0.0

Nice Guy Eddie

0.0

Young Charlie Chaplin

0.0

Victorian Scandals

0.0

Class Act

0.0