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 nomi...
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Sakharov
As Nobel Presenter
The Dybbuk
As Frade
Survival of the Fittest
As Eileen Blackett
The Secret Agent
As Winnie's Mother
For My Baby
As Olga Jenikova
3 Into 2 Won't Go
As Marcia
Julius Caesar
As Calphurnia
The Barber of Siberia
As Perepiolkina
Sense and Sensibility
As Mrs. Jennings
Leeds United!
As Maggie
The Last Vampyre
As Eileen Mason
Intensive Care
As Alice Duckworth
Afternoon Off
As Miss Beckinsale
Alice in Wonderland
As Duchess
Paradise Road
As Mrs. Roberts
Richard's Things
As Mrs. Sells
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Rust
As Eleanor Hawkes
Lady Chatterley's Lover
As Lady Eva
All's Well That Ends Well
As Widow
Fox
As Connie Fox
Is Anybody There?
As Prudence
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
As The Fat Lady
Those Glory Glory Days
As School Mistress
Spider's Web
As Mildred Peake
A Christmas Carol
As Mrs Riggs
Parker
As Mrs. Epps
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
As Evelyn Smith
Impromptu
As Baroness Laginsky
The Hour of the Pig
As Madame Langlois
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
As Mrs Murray
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
As Miss Markland
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
As Schultz
A Pinch of Snuff
As Annabelle Andover
The Merry Wives of Windsor
As Mistress Quickly
The Devil's Disciple
As Mrs. Dudgeon
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
As Herself
The Sleeper
As Cath
Love Letters on Blue Paper
As Sonia Marsden
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
As Mrs. Palmer
The Cause
As Olive James
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
As Tabby
The Cold Room
As Frau Hoffman
The Old Devils
As Dorothy Morgan
Jeeves and Wooster
As Aunt Agatha
Bergerac
As Mary Lou Costain
Doctor Who
As Maddy
Tales from the Crypt
As Mrs. Trask
Tales of the Unexpected
As Aunt May
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
As Schultz
Heartbeat
As Rene Kirby
Takin' Over the Asylum
As Grandma
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Watching
As Aunt Peggy
Sherlock Holmes
As Mrs Mason
Lovejoy
As Daphne Shotley
Fox
As Connie Fox
Jericho
As Ellen Jericho
Shine on Harvey Moon
The Expert
As Mrs. Kyneston
Play for Today
As Sonia Marsden
Black and Blue
Festival
As Lampito
BBC Play of the Month
As Maud Lowder
The Glittering Prizes
As Lady Frances Davidson
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
Agatha Christie's Poirot
As Mrs. Leadbetter
Kind of Living
BBC Television Shakespeare
Nice Guy Eddie
As Vera McMullen
Victorian Scandals
Young Charlie Chaplin
As Madge Kendal
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
As Inge Middleton
Class Act
As Harriet Mainwaring
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
As Eva Peterlee
Love Soup
As Penny's Mother (voice)
The Royal
As Dolly Smith
Simon and the Witch
As The Witch
Casualty
As Barbara Thomas
Shackleton
As Janet Stancombe Wills
Martin Chuzzlewit
As Mrs. Gamp
Middlemarch
As Mrs. Cadwallader
Wives and Daughters
As Mrs. Goodenough
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
As May
Midsomer Murders
As Iris Rainbird
Time for Murder
As Evelyn Smith
Soldier Soldier
As Mrs. Henwood
Objects of Affection
As Cora