Elizabeth Spriggs

ActorWriter Sep 18 (died age 78) Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK 1956–2009 (53 year career)

6.4 avg rating

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

Film

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

The Fat Lady

Film

Sense and Sensibility

Mrs. Jennings

Film

A Christmas Carol

Mrs. Riggs

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Duchess

Film

The Barber of Siberia

Perepiolkina

Film

Paradise Road

Mrs. Roberts

Film

Is Anybody There?

Prudence

Film

Wives and Daughters

Mrs. Goodenough

Filmography

Acting (100)

Movies (50)

Is Anybody There?

2009

as Prudence

6.3

James Ellis: An Actor's Life

2007

as Herself

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

2004

5.6

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

as The Fat Lady

For My Baby

as Olga Jenikova

The Sleeper

as Cath

A Christmas Carol

as Mrs. Riggs

Alice in Wonderland

as Duchess

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

1999

as Schultz

5.1

The Barber of Siberia

as Perepiolkina

Paradise Road

as Mrs. Roberts

The Secret Agent

as Winnie's Mother

The Snow Queen's Revenge

1996

as Brenda (voice)

5.5

Sense and Sensibility

1995

as Mrs. Jennings

7.4

A Pinch of Snuff

1994

as Annabelle Andover

The Hour of the Pig

as Madame Langlois

The Last Vampyre

as Eileen Mason

The Old Devils

as Dorothy Morgan

Impromptu

1991

as Baroness Laginsky

6.0

Survival of the Fittest

1990

as Eileen Blackett

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

as Tabby

The Devil's Disciple

as Mrs. Dudgeon

Parker

as Mrs. Epps

The Thirteenth Day of Christmas

1985

as Evelyn Smith

Sakharov

as Nobel Presenter

The Cold Room

as Frau Hoffman

Those Glory Glory Days

as School Mistress

Spider's Web

as Mildred Peake

Our Winnie

as Cora

The Merry Wives of Windsor

1982

as Mistress Quickly

8.0

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

1982

as Mrs. Palmer

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

1982

as Miss Markland

5.2

Intensive Care

1982

as Alice Duckworth

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

1981

as Mrs Radcliffe

Lady Chatterley's Lover

1981

as Lady Eva

5.4

The Cause

1981

as Olive James

Fothergill

1981

as Middle Class Woman

The Dybbuk

1980

as Frade

Fox

as Connie Fox

Richard's Things

as Mrs. Sells

The Enigma

as Miss Parsons

Afternoon Off

1979

as Miss Beckinsale

Julius Caesar

1979

as Calphurnia

8.5

Able's Will

1977

as Sarah

Love Letters on Blue Paper

1976

as Sonia Marsden

Leeds United!

1974

as Maggie

Rust

1973

as Eleanor Hawkes

3 Into 2 Won't Go

1969

as Marcia

4.6

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

1968

as Mrs Murray

3.0

All's Well That Ends Well

1968

as Widow

Television (50)

Love Soup

2005

as Penny's Mother (voice)

Jericho

as Ellen Jericho

The Royal

as Dolly Smith

Shackleton

as Janet Stancombe Wills

7.1

Nice Guy Eddie

2002

as Vera McMullen

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Wives and Daughters

as Mrs. Goodenough

Wives and Daughters

as Mrs Goodenough

Midsomer Murders

as Iris Rainbird

Martin Chuzzlewit

as Mrs. Gamp

Martin Chuzzlewit

as Mrs Gamp

Middlemarch

as Mrs. Cadwallader

Takin' Over the Asylum

as Grandma

Heartbeat

as Rene Kirby

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992

as Schultz

6.5

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

as Inge Middleton

Soldier Soldier

as Mrs. Henwood

Performance

as Mistress Quickly

Jeeves and Wooster

as Aunt Agatha

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

1990

as May

6.5

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mrs. Leadbetter

Tales from the Crypt

as Mrs. Trask

Young Charlie Chaplin

1989

Young Charlie Chaplin

1989

as Madge Kendal

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Eva Peterlee

Watching

as Aunty Peggy

Simon and the Witch

as The Witch

Casualty

as Barbara Thomas

Lovejoy

as Daphne Shotley

Theatre Night

as Mrs. Dudgeon

Time for Murder

as Evelyn Smith

Sherlock Holmes

as Mrs Mason

Shine on Harvey Moon

as Nan

Objects of Affection

as Cora

Bergerac

as Mary Lou Costain

Cribb

as Mrs Gurney

Fox

as Connie Fox

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Martha

6.7

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Sarah

7.0

Victorian Scandals

1976

The Glittering Prizes

1976

as Lady Frances Davidson

6.0

Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

Playhouse

as Miss Parsons

Black and Blue

as Eleanor Hawkes

Play for Today

as Maggie

The Expert

as Mrs. Kyneston

BBC Play of the Month

as Maud Lowder

Theatre 625

Doctor Who

as Maddy

Festival

as Lampito

Crew (1)

Television (1)

Armchair Theatre

1956

Writer

5.8