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Elizabeth Jean Williams
Elisabeth Spriggs
Elizabeth Jean Spriggs-Manson
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Elizabeth Spriggs
Acting
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 P…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Is Anybody There?
as Prudence
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
as Herself
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as The Fat Lady
The Sleeper
as Cath
For My Baby
as Olga Jenikova
A Christmas Carol
as Mrs. Riggs
Alice in Wonderland
as Duchess
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Schultz
The Barber of Siberia
as Perepiolkina
TV Shows
Jericho
as Ellen Jericho · 1 ep.
Love Soup
as Penny's Mother (voice) · 1 ep.
The Royal
as Dolly Smith · 2 ep.
Shackleton
as Janet Stancombe Wills · 1 ep.
Nice Guy Eddie
as Vera McMullen · 6 ep.
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
1 ep.
Wives and Daughters
as Mrs Goodenough · 3 ep.
Midsomer Murders
as Ursula Gooding · 1 ep.
Middlemarch
as Mrs. Cadwallader · 6 ep.
Martin Chuzzlewit
as Mrs Gamp · 3 ep.
