Miriam Margolyes filmography and biography
Date of birth: 18 May 1941, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Miriam Margolyes biography
A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes
has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of the BAFTA
Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for
The Age of Innocence she also received Best Supporting
Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role in
Little Dorrit and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress on
"Radio" in 1993. She was the voice of Fly the dog in
Babe.
Major credits during her long and celebrated career include
Yentl, Little Shop of Horrors,
I Love You to Death, End of Days,
Sunshine, Cold Comfort Farm (1995) (TV),
Cats amp; Dogs, Magnolia and she was Prof.
Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Most recently Margolyes appeared in Stephen Hopkins (I)'
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,
Modigliani, István Szabó (I)'s
Being Julia and Ladies in Lavender. (with
Dames Maggie Smith (I) and Judi Dench), which is opening
at the NY Tribeca Festival on April 23rd.
Most memorable TV credits include
"Screen Two" (1985) {Old Flames (#6.1)}, Freud,
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil,
The Black Adder,
The Girls of Slender Means (1975) (TV), _Oliver Twist (1982)
(TV)_, The History Man, Vanity Fair ,
Supply & Demand (1997) (TV). She was Franny in the CBS sitcom
Frannies Turn and starred recently in the Miss Marple
episode, "Murder at the Vicarage".
Stage credits include "The Vagina Monologues", Sir
Peter Hall (I)'s Los Angeles production of "Romeo & Juliet",
"She Stoops to Conquer" and "Orpheus Descending" (all for Sir
Peter Hall (I)), "The Killing of Sister George", "The Threepenny
Opera" (Tony Richardson (I)), Michael Lindsay-Hogg's "The
White Devil" at The Old Vic, the Bristol Old Vic production of "The
Canterbury Tales" and her own award-winning, one-woman show, "Dickens'
Woman". In the 2002 Queen's New Years Honours List, Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II awarded her the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British)
Empire for her services to Drama.
Miriam Margolyes trivia
- She was awarded O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in
the 2002 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama.
- Works and has homes in the US, UK and Australia.
- Is of Belarussian descent.
- In the Independent on Sunday [UK] 2006 Pink List - a list of the most
influential gay men and women - Margolyes came no. 93, down from last
year's no. 29.
- Attended Oxford High School GDST.
Miriam Margolyes quotes
- "I'm not the sort of woman men boast of having slept with."