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).
50 movies · 49 shows
Is Anybody There?
2009·6.3
James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007·0.0
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004·5.8
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001·7.9
The Sleeper
2000·6.5
For My Baby
2000·3.8
A Christmas Carol
1999·7.0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999·5.2
Alice in Wonderland
1999·6.2
The Barber of Siberia
1998·7.0
Paradise Road
1997·6.4
The Secret Agent
1996·5.6
The Snow Queen's Revenge
1996·5.7
Sense and Sensibility
1995·7.4
A Pinch of Snuff
1994·0.0
The Hour of the Pig
1993·6.2
The Last Vampyre
1993·7.0
The Old Devils
1992·0.0
Impromptu
1991·6.1
Survival of the Fittest
1990·0.0
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
1987·6.5
The Devil's Disciple
1987·8.0
The Thirteenth Day of Christmas
1985·9.0
Parker
1985·6.3
Sakharov
1984·7.5
The Cold Room
1984·4.8
Those Glory Glory Days
1983·5.3
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1982·8.0
Spider's Web
1982·7.2
Our Winnie
1982·0.0
Intensive Care
1982·9.0
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
1982·10.0
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
1982·5.4
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981·5.4
The Cause
1981·0.0
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981·0.0
Fothergill
1981·0.0
Richard's Things
1980·4.9
Fox
1980·1.0
The Dybbuk
1980·0.0
The Enigma
1980·0.0
Julius Caesar
1979·8.7
Afternoon Off
1979·0.0
Able's Will
1977·0.0
Love Letters on Blue Paper
1976·8.0
Leeds United!
1974·10.0
Rust
1973·0.0
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969·5.0
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968·6.0
All's Well That Ends Well
1968·10.0