

Acting
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...
Highest rated appearances
as Perepiolkina

A Christmas Carol
as Mrs. Riggs

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
as Schultz

Alice in Wonderland
as Duchess

The Barber of Siberia
as Perepiolkina

Paradise Road
as Mrs. Roberts

The Secret Agent
as Winnie's Mother

The Snow Queen's Revenge
as Brenda (voice)

Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings

A Pinch of Snuff
as Annabelle Andover

The Hour of the Pig
as Madame Langlois

The Last Vampyre
as Eileen Mason

The Old Devils
as Dorothy Morgan

Impromptu
as Baroness Laginsky

Survival of the Fittest
as Eileen Blackett

Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
as Tabby

The Devil's Disciple
as Mrs. Dudgeon
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
as Evelyn Smith

Parker
as Mrs. Epps

Sakharov
as Nobel Presenter

The Cold Room
as Frau Hoffman

Those Glory Glory Days
as School Mistress

The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Mistress Quickly

Spider's Web
as Mildred Peake

Our Winnie
as Cora

Intensive Care
as Alice Duckworth

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
as Mrs. Palmer

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
as Miss Markland

Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Lady Eva

The Cause
as Olive James

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
as Mrs Radcliffe

Fothergill
as Middle Class Woman

Richard's Things
as Mrs. Sells
Fox
as Connie Fox

The Dybbuk
as Frade

The Enigma
as Miss Parsons