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Portrait of Elizabeth Spriggs

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Elizabeth Spriggs

  • Born Sept. 18, 1929
  • Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
  • Died July 2, 2008, aged 78

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 …

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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).

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The Fat Lady

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Mrs. Jennings

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Mrs. Trask

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Maddy / Tabby

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Mrs. Leadbetter

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Duchess

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Iris Rainbird / Ursula Gooding

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Mrs Mason

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Mrs. Riggs

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Perepiolkina

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Schultz

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Aunt Agatha

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Lady Eva

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Mrs. Roberts

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Barbara Thomas

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Prudence

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Baroness Laginsky

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Daphne Shotley

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Aunt May / Martha

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Winnie's Mother

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Madame Langlois

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Janet Stancombe Wills

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Mrs Goodenough

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Rene Kirby / Mrs. Andrews

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Eileen Mason

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Schultz

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May

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Mary Lou Costain

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Grandma

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Mrs. Cadwallader

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Mrs. Henwood

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Brenda (voice)

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Miss Markland

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Mrs. Sells

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Eva Peterlee

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Sonia Marsden / Olive James / Alice Duckworth / Maggie

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Mildred Peake

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Dolly Smith

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Marcia

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School Mistress

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Maud Lowder

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Nan

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Aunty Peggy

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Penny's Mother (voice)

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Ellen Jericho

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Mistress Quickly

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Frau Hoffman

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Inge Middleton

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Mrs Gurney

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Mrs Gamp

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Eileen Blackett

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Tabby

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Olga Jenikova

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Connie Fox

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Mrs. Epps

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Calphurnia

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The Witch

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Mistress Quickly

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Eleanor Hawkes

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Cora

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Mistress Quickly

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Nobel Presenter

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Mrs. Dudgeon

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Mrs. Kyneston

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Cath

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Maggie Snape

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Mrs Murray

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Sarah

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Lampito

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Connie Fox

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Alice Duckworth

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Maggie

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Sonia Marsden

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Vera McMullen

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Miss Parsons / Middle-Class Woman / Mrs. Radcliffe

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Mrs. Palmer

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Evelyn Smith

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Hannah Cullwick

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Madge Kendal

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Annabelle Andover

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Sarah

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Miss Beckinsale

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Middle Class Woman

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Cora

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Eleanor Hawkes

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Eileen Blackett

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Olive James

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Frade

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Miss Parsons

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Mrs Radcliffe

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Dorothy Morgan

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Mrs. Dudgeon

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Eleanor Presset

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Herself