Elizabeth Spriggs
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as The Fat Lady Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 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).
Filmography
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as The Fat Lady
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Jennings
Alice in Wonderland
as Duchess
A Christmas Carol
as Mrs. Riggs
The Barber of Siberia
as Perepiolkina
Paradise Road
as Mrs. Roberts
Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Lady Eva
Is Anybody There?
as Prudence
Impromptu
as Baroness Laginsky
The Secret Agent
as Winnie's Mother
The Hour of the Pig
as Madame Langlois
The Last Vampyre
as Eileen Mason
The Snow Queen's Revenge
as Brenda (voice)
Richard's Things
as Mrs. Sells
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
as Miss Markland
3 Into 2 Won't Go
as Marcia
Those Glory Glory Days
as School Mistress
Spider's Web
as Mildred Peake