Elizabeth Spriggs

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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

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

The Fat Lady

Sense and Sensibility

Mrs. Jennings

Tales from the Crypt

Mrs. Trask

Doctor Who

Maddy

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Mrs. Leadbetter

Alice in Wonderland

Duchess

Midsomer Murders

Iris Rainbird

Midsomer Murders

Ursula Gooding

Full Filmography

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

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