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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Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe...
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Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11t...
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A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician....
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Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is Anybody There? (2009) | Prudence | - | - |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) Oscars 2002 | The Fat Lady | 7.8 | |
| 3 | Alice in Wonderland (1999) | Duchess | 8 | |
| 4 | A Christmas Carol (1999) | Mrs. Riggs | 8 | |
| 5 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service (1999) | Schultz | - | - |
| 6 | The Barber of Siberia (1998) | Perepiolkina | 7 | |
| 7 | Paradise Road (1997) | Mrs. Roberts | 10 | |
| 8 | The Secret Agent (1996) | Winnie's Mother | - | - |
| 9 | Sense and Sensibility (1995) | Mrs. Jennings | 7.2 | |
| 10 | The Hour of the Pig (1993) | Madame Langlois | 6 | |
| 11 | Impromptu (1991) | Baroness Laginsky | - | - |

