Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK — Sep 18 1929• Died Jul 02 2008

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), Paradis…
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Iris Rainbird

Mrs. Leadbetter

Maddy

Barbara Thomas

Sonia Marsden

Rene Kirby

Mary Lou Costain

Maud Lowder

The Fat Lady

Aunt May


Mrs Mason

Mrs. Trask

Miss Parsons

Mrs. Kyneston

Mrs. Henwood

Daphne Shotley

Aunt Agatha

Mistress Quickly

Eva Peterlee

Sarah
Lampito

Schultz

Nan

Janet Stancombe Wills

Aunty Peggy

Mrs. Jennings

Penny's Mother (voice)

Mrs. Cadwallader

Mrs Goodenough

Hannah Cullwick

Mrs Gamp

Mrs. Dudgeon
Eleanor Hawkes

Connie Fox

Evelyn Smith

May

Mrs Gurney

Madge Kendal

Cora

Grandma

Duchess

Ellen Jericho

Inge Middleton

Perepiolkina

Writing

Baroness Laginsky

Mrs. Roberts

Dolly Smith
Vera McMullen

Lady Eva

Mrs. Riggs

Winnie's Mother

Frau Hoffman
Connie Fox

Nobel Presenter

Prudence

Schultz

Madame Langlois

Mistress Quickly

Miss Markland

Mrs. Sells

Cath

Mrs. Epps

Sarah

Tabby

Alice Duckworth

Miss Beckinsale

Olga Jenikova

Mrs. Dudgeon

Annabelle Andover

Marcia

Eileen Mason

School Mistress

Calphurnia
Eleanor Hawkes

Miss Parsons

Cora

Brenda (voice)

Dorothy Morgan

Herself
Widow

Mrs Murray

Mrs. Palmer


The Witch

Maggie

Sonia Marsden

Olive James

Mildred Peake

Middle Class Woman

Mrs Radcliffe

Eileen Blackett

Frade
Evelyn Smith