Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Sep 18, 1929 (96 years old)
Elizabeth Spriggs
Known For
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).
Acting
2007
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2002
Nice Guy Eddie
2001
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2000
The Sleeper
2000
For My Baby
1999
Wives and Daughters
1999
Alice in Wonderland
1998
The Barber of Siberia
1997
Paradise Road
1996
The Secret Agent
1996
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1995
Sense and Sensibility
1994
Martin Chuzzlewit
1994
Takin' Over the Asylum
1994
Middlemarch
1994
A Pinch of Snuff
1993
The Hour of the Pig
1992
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992
The Old Devils
1991
Impromptu
1990
Survival of the Fittest
1990
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1988
Kind of Living
1987
Simon and the Witch
1987
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987
The Devil's Disciple
1985
Parker