
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 Philosopher's Stone (2001).

Midsomer Murders
1997

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989

Play for Today
1970

Casualty
1986

Doctor Who
1963

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001

Sherlock Holmes
1984

Tales from the Crypt
1989

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Heartbeat
1992

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Bergerac
1981

Performance
1991

Sense and Sensibility
1995

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978

Playhouse
1974

Theatre 625
1964

Soldier Soldier
1991

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992

Lovejoy
1986

Screen One
1989

Jeeves and Wooster
1990

BBC2 Play of the Week
1977

Watching
1987

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
2000

The Expert
1968

Wives and Daughters
1999

Shine on Harvey Moon
1982

Alice in Wonderland
1999

Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981

Cribb
1980

Takin' Over the Asylum
1994

Theatre Night
1985

Shackleton
2002

Love Soup
2005