
Nato/a 18 set 1929 · Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
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).

Is Anybody There?
2009

James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007

Love Soup
2005

Jericho
2005

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004

The Royal
2003

Shackleton
2002

Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale
2001

The Sleeper
2000

For My Baby
2000

Wives and Daughters
1999

Alice nel paese delle meraviglie
1999

Canto di Natale
1999

Il barbiere di Siberia
1998

L'ispettore Barnaby
1997

Paradise Road
1997

L'agente segreto
1996

The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996

Ragione e sentimento
1995

Martin Chuzzlewit
1994

Middlemarch
1994

Takin' Over the Asylum
1994

The Last Vampyre
1993

The Hour of the Pig
1993

Heartbeat
1992

Le avventure del giovane Indiana Jones
1992

Anglo Saxon Attitudes
1992

Performance
1991

Soldier Soldier
1991

Chopin amore mio
1991

Jeeves and Wooster
1990

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990

Survival of the Fittest
1990

Poirot
1989

I racconti della cripta
1989

Screen One
1989

Young Charlie Chaplin
1989

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

Watching
1987

Simon and the Witch
1987

The Devil's Disciple
1987

Casualty
1986

Lovejoy
1986

Theatre Night
1985

Time for Murder
1985

Parker
1985

Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes
1984

Sakharov
1984

The Cold Room
1984

Those Glory Glory Days
1983

Shine on Harvey Moon
1982

Objects of Affection
1982

Le Allegre Comari di Windsor
1982

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982

Intensive Care
1982

Spider's Web
1982

L'asso della Manica
1981

L'amante di Lady Chatterley
1981

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981

The Cause
1981

Cribb
1980

Fox
1980

Gli amori di Richard
1980

The Dybbuk
1980

Il brivido dell'imprevisto
1979

Afternoon Off
1979

Julius Caesar
1979

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978

BBC2 Play of the Week
1977

Victorian Scandals
1976

Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976

Playhouse
1974

Leeds United!
1974

Play for Today
1970

3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969

The Expert
1968

Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Theatre 625
1964

Doctor Who
1963