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Miriam Margolyes
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Miriam Margolyes is a British and Australian actress, voice actor, comedian, and stage actor. Born on 18 May 1941 in Oxford, she began her professional work in 1965. She received an education at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, and holds citizenship in both the United Kingdom and Australia. Margolyes has been recognized with the award of Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Her literary works include *Miriam's Full English*, *Little Book of Miriam*, *Oh Miriam!*, *This Much Is True*, and *Dickens' Women*. She resides in London, Montisi, and Robertson. Margolyes speaks English and identifies as a lesbian and a member of the Jewish ethnic group.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Miriam's Full English
- Little Book of Miriam
- Oh Miriam!
- This Much Is True
- Dickens' Women
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Miriam Margolyes (born May 18, 1941) is a British-Australian actress, writer, political activist and television personality, most prominent as a character actor on stage and screen. Her earliest roles were in theatre and, following a transition to film and television, she won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993).
Known for
- Holy Days — Sister Luke2026
- Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me — Self2026
- Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me — Self2026
- Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness2025
- A Friend of Dorothy — Dorothy2025
- Badjelly — Badjelly (voice)2025
- Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand — Self - Presenter2025
- The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved — Narrator (voice)2024
- How To Make It In Comedy2024
- Alec Guinness: A Class Act — self2024
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1941
Member of
- The “Just a Minute” Team1979–1979
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 504
- Total plays
- 4,925
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Miriam+Margolyes">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,797x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification
· 2010 · cited 11,864x
- Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean
· 2015 · cited 11,006x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I was in my late twenties when I told my mother. [...] I spoke to her about an affair with a woman and three days later she had this stroke.”
- “I now regret it because it caused the person I loved the most pain she could not bear. I should have been aware that to tell her was very wrong. It also hurts me that she was not then able to live to see my success.”
- “[On mortality] If you are a Jew, and I am, it is not a subject that is ever far away. The Holocaust, in which I lost no one I knew, scarred me forever. And my life is informed by knowledge of it. I'm a jolly little soul but at the back of the jollity there is a knowledge of despair.”
- “The umbilical cord was never completely cut, metaphorically speaking, so I still feel massively connected to them long after their deaths.But I also happen to think that being an only child is inevitably damaging in some way because it too intensely focuses you on your parents and deprives young people of the socialising they must experience in order to fruit properly. I was terribly anxious to make friends; and I'm still needing people rather more than I should be, even at this advanced age.”
- “[On the TV series Miriam's Big Fat Adventure] I've always been fat and you're not supposed to be fat, so my built-in rebellion starts with the very flesh that I inhabit.”
- “For 11 years they must have had intercourse but never complete[ly], but in the air raid, in the heat of the terror, I was created.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1941-05-18 ) 18 May 1941 (age 85) , Oxford , England
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom Australia
- Education
- Oxford High School
- Alma mater
- University of Cambridge
- Occupations
- Actress comedian narrator author
- Years active
- 1963–present
- Known for
- The Age of Innocence Yentl Harry Potter End of Days
- Political party
- Labour
- Partner
- Heather Sutherland (1968–present)
- Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Website
- miriammargolyes .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Miriam
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Oxford
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.miriammargolyes.com
- Image
- Miriam Margolyes 2008.jpg
- Height
- 155
- Residence
- Robertson
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- Commons category
- Miriam Margolyes
- date of birth
- 1941-05-18
- birth name
- Miriam Margolyes
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- name in native language
- Miriam Margolyes
- P12749
- Itea
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Miriam Margolyes OBE (/ˈmɑːrɡəliːz/ MAR-gə-leez; born 18 May 1941) is a British and Australian comedian, writer, and actress. Known for her work as a character actor across film, television, and stage, she received the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), and achieved international prominence with her portrayal of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.
After starting her career in theatre, Margolyes made the transition to film with a small part in the British comedy A Nice Girl Like Me (1969). Subsequent credits include Yentl (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Little Dorrit (1988), I Love You to Death (1990), Immortal Beloved (1994), Balto (1995), Different for Girls, Romeo + Juliet (both 1996), Magnolia, End of Days (both 1999), Being Julia, and Ladies in Lavender (both 2004). She voiced roles in Babe (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Mulan (1998), Happy Feet (2006), Flushed Away (2006), and Early Man (2018).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miriam Margolyes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.