Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes | |
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Born | Oxford, England | 18 May 1941
Citizenship |
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Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1965–present |
Partner(s) | Heather Sutherland (1967–present) |
Website | miriammargolyes |
Miriam Margolyes, OBE (/ˈmɑːrɡəliːz/; born 18 May 1941) is a British-Australian character actress and comedian. Her earliest roles were in theatre; after several supporting roles in film and television, she won a BAFTA Award for her role in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) and was cast in the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series.
Margolyes has spent many years dividing her time between England, Australia, and Italy. She has starred in productions in both England and Australia, including the Australian premiere of the 2013 play I'll Eat You Last. She became an Australian citizen in 2013.[1]
Early life
Margolyes was born in Oxford on 18 May 1941,[2] the only child of Ruth (née Walters; 1905–1974), an English property investor and developer, and Joseph Margolyes (1899–1995), a Scottish physician from the Gorbals area of Glasgow.[3][4] She grew up in a Jewish family,[5][6][7] with ancestors who moved to the UK from Belarus and Poland. Her great-grandfather, Symeon Sandmann, was born in the Polish town of Margonin, which Margolyes visited in 2013. She attended Oxford High School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English.[8] There, in her 20s, she began acting and appeared in productions by the Cambridge Footlights.[9] She represented Newnham College in the first series of University Challenge, where she may have been one of the first people to say "fuck" on British television;[10] she claims to have used the word in frustration on the show in 1963.[11][12][a]
Career
With her distinctive voice, Margolyes first gained recognition for her work as a voice artist. In the 1970s she recorded a soft-porn audio called Sexy Sonia: Leaves from my Schoolgirl Notebook.[15] She performed most of the supporting female characters in the dubbed Japanese action TV series Monkey. She also worked with the theatre company Gay Sweatshop and provided voiceovers in the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (credited as Mirium Margolyes).
In 1974 she appeared with Kenneth Williams and Ted Ray in the BBC Radio 2 comedy series The Betty Witherspoon Show.[16]
Margolyes' first major role in a film was as Elephant Ethel in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977). In the 1980s, she made appearances in Blackadder opposite Rowan Atkinson: these roles include the Spanish Infanta in The Black Adder, Lady Whiteadder in Blackadder II and Queen Victoria in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. In 1986 she played a major supporting role in the BBC drama The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. She won the 1989 LA Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Flora Finching in the film Little Dorrit (1988). On American television, she headlined the short-lived 1992 CBS sitcom Frannie's Turn. In 1994 she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993).
In 1989, Margolyes co-wrote and performed a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, in which she played 23 characters from Dickens' novels.[17]
Margolyes came to the notice of younger audiences when she starred as Aunt Sponge in James and the Giant Peach (1996); she also provided the voice of the Glowworm in the same film. During the same time she played the Nurse in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). Around this time, she voiced the rabbit character in the animated commercials for Cadbury's Caramel bars[18] and provided the voice of Fly the dog in the Australian-American family film Babe (1995).[19]
She played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets released in 2002. In a 2011 interview on The Graham Norton Show, in regard to her fellow castmembers, Margolyes claimed that she liked Maggie Smith, but rather bluntly admitted that she, "didn't like the one that died", meaning Richard Harris.[20]
In 2004, Margolyes played the role of Peg Sellers, the mother of Peter Sellers, in the Golden Globe winning film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
She was one of the original cast of the London production of the musical Wicked in 2006, playing Madame Morrible opposite Idina Menzel, a role she also played on Broadway in 2008.[21]
In 2009, she appeared in a new production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett at the Duchess Theatre in London's West End.[22]
Margolyes voiced the role of Mrs. Plithiver, a blind snake in 3D-animated-epic film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010). Margolyes reprised her role as Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011).
She played recurring character Prudence Stanley in the Australian-based TV series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries from 2012 to 2015.
In 2014, she voiced Nana in the Disney Junior animated series for pre-school-age viewers Nina Needs to Go![23]
In January 2016 she appeared in The Real Marigold Hotel, a travel documentary in which a group of eight celebrities travel to India to see whether retirement would be more rewarding there than in the UK.[24] The series was reprised for two Christmas Specials The Real Marigold On Tour, from Florida and Kyoto.[25] She narrated the 2016 ITV documentary about Lady Colin Campbell entitled Lady C and the Castle.[26]
In December 2017 Margolyes appeared in the second season of The Real Marigold On Tour to Chengdu and Havana.[27] She appeared in the first episode of the third season when she travelled to St Petersburg, Russia with Bobby George, Sheila Ferguson and Stanley Johnson.
In January 2018 Margolyes hosted a three-part series for the BBC titled Miriam's Big American Adventure, highlighting the citizens of the US and the issues facing the nation.[28]
Since 2018, Margolyes has portrayed Mother Mildred in the BBC One drama, Call The Midwife.
She played Miss Shepherd in a 2019 production of The Lady in the Van for the Melbourne Theatre Company in Melbourne in Australia.[29]
Other work
Margolyes is a supporter of Sense (the National Deafblind and Rubella Association) and was the host at the first Sense Creative Writing Awards, held at the Charles Dickens Museum in London in December 2006, where she read a number of works written by talented deafblind people.[30]
In 2011, Margolyes recorded a narrative for the album The Devil's Brides by klezmer musician-ethnographer Yale Strom.[31]
Political activism
Margolyes is a member of the ENOUGH! coalition, a UK group which advocates the boycott of Israel. She is also a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians.[32] She said, "What I want to try to do is to get Jewish people to understand what's really going on, and they don't want to hear it. If you speak to most Jews and say, 'Can Israel ever be in the wrong?' they say, 'No. Our duty as Jews is to support Israel whatever happens.' And I don't believe that. It is our duty as human beings to report the truth as we see it."[33] She is also a campaigner for the respite care charity Crossroads.[34]
Margolyes is a member of the Labour Party and is registered to vote in Vauxhall. In August 2015, she was a signatory to a letter criticising The Jewish Chronicle's reporting of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's alleged associations with antisemites.[35] In November 2019, she endorsed the Labour Party in the UK general election because of their policies on the NHS.[36][37] Later in the month, along with other public figures, she signed a letter supporting Corbyn and describing him as a "beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia, and racism in much of the democratic world".[38]
Personal life
Margolyes is openly gay.[39] On becoming an Australian citizen on Australia Day 2013,[34] she referred to herself as a "dyke" live on national television and in front of then-prime minister Julia Gillard.[40] Since 1967, she has been in a relationship with Heather Sutherland,[19][41] a retired Australian professor of Indonesian studies.[42] They divide their time between homes in London and Kent in England, Robertson in Australia, and Tuscany in Italy.[43][44][45][46]
Author and comedian David Walliams says he used Margolyes as a model for the title character in his children's book Awful Auntie after a rude exchange with her during a stage production, though he stressed that he has nothing against her and is a fan of her work.[47]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1969 | A Nice Girl Like Me | Pensione 'Mama' | |
1975 | Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
1976 | The Battle of Billy's Pond | Tour Guide | |
1977 | Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers | Elephant Ethel | |
1978 | On a Paving Stone Mounted | Performer | |
1980 | The Apple | Landlady | |
1980 | The Awakening | Dr Kadira | |
1981 | Reds | Woman writing in notebook | Uncredited |
1982 | Crystal Gazing | Newsreader | |
1983 | Yentl | Sarah | |
1983 | Scrubbers | Jones | |
1984 | Electric Dreams | Ticket Girl | |
1985 | The Good Father | Jane Powell | |
1985 | Morons from Outer Space | Doctor Wallace | |
1986 | Little Shop of Horrors | Dental Nurse | |
1987 | Body Contact | Mrs. Zulu | |
1988 | Little Dorrit | Flora Finching | |
1990 | The Fool | Mrs. Bowring | |
1990 | Pacific Heights | Realtor | |
1990 | I Love You to Death | Mrs. Boca | |
1991 | The Butcher's Wife | Gina | |
1991 | Dead Again | Lady | Uncredited |
1992 | As You Like It | Audrey | |
1993 | The Age of Innocence | Mrs. Mingott | |
1993 | Ed and His Dead Mother | Mabel Chilton | |
1994 | Immortal Beloved | Nanette Streicherová | |
1995 | Balto | Grandma Rosy | |
1995 | Babe | Fly the Female Sheepdog | Voice |
1996 | Different for Girls | Pamela | |
1996 | Romeo + Juliet | The Nurse | |
1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Aunt Sponge/Glowworm | Voice |
1998 | Mulan | The Matchmaker | Voice |
1998 | Babe: Pig in the City | Fly the Female Sheepdog | Voice |
1998 | Left Luggage | Mrs. Goldman | |
1998 | Candy | Gisella | |
1999 | Magnolia | Faye Barringer | Uncredited |
1999 | End of Days | Mabel | |
1999 | Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Signora Caldoni | |
1999 | Sunshine | Rose Sonnenschein | |
2000 | House! | Beth | |
2001 | Not Afraid, Not Afraid | Performer | |
2001 | Cats & Dogs | Sophie the Castle Maid | |
2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Professor Pomona Sprout | |
2002 | Plots with a View | Thelma & Selma | |
2002 | Alone | Caseworker | |
2004 | Being Julia | Dolly de Vries | |
2004 | Ladies in Lavender | Dorcas | |
2004 | Modigliani | Gertrude Stein | |
2004 | End of the Line | Bag Lady | Short Film |
2004 | Chasing Liberty | Maria | |
2006 | Happy Feet | Mrs. Astrakhan | Voice |
2006 | Flushed Away | Rita's Grandma | Voice |
2006 | Sir Billi the Vet | Baroness Chantal McToff | Voice |
2007 | The Dukes | Aunt Vee | |
2008 | How To Lose Friends and Alienate People | Mrs. Kowalski | |
2009 | A Closed Book | Mrs. Kilbride | |
2010 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Mrs. Plithiver | Voice |
2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | Professor Pomona Sprout | |
2012 | The Wedding Video | Patricia | |
2012 | The Guilt Trip | Anita | |
2014 | The Legend of Longwood | Lady Thyrza | |
2014 | Maya the Bee | The Queen | Voice |
2017 | The Little Vampire 3D | Wulftrud | Voice |
2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Mrs. Fisk | |
2018 | Early Man | Queen Oofeefa | Voice |
2019 | H Is For Happiness | Miss Bamford | |
2020 | Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears | Prudence Stanley |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1965 | Theatre 625 | Rita | Episode: "Enter Solly Gold" |
1967 | Boy Meets Girl | Maria | Episode: "Flight of the Kingfisher" |
1968 | Jackanory | Storyteller | 5 episodes |
1968 | Dixon of Dock Green | Anna | Episode: "An Ordinary Man" |
1973 | Doctor in Charge | Doris | Episode: "Men without Women" |
1974 | World of Laughter | Various parts | 6 episodes |
1974 | Fall of Eagles | Anna Vyrubova | Episode: "Tell the King the Sky is Falling" |
1975 | The Girls of Slender Means | Jane Wright | 3 episodes |
1976 | Christmas Box | Mrs. Kaplan | Television film |
1976 | Angels | June Morris | 2 episodes |
1976 | Kizzy | Mrs. Doe | 2 episodes |
1976 | The Glittering Prizes | Olive Wise | TV serial |
1976 1982 |
Crown Court | Marilyn Munro Mrs. King |
2 episodes |
1977 | Play for Today | Veronica | Episode: "The Thin Edge of the Wedge" |
1977 | Spasms | Rose Finn | Television film |
1978 | Monkey | Voice | English dub of Japanese series Saiyûki 52 episodes |
1980 | The Lost Tribe | Queenie | TV serial |
1980 | Tales of the Unexpected | Mary Burge | Episode: "Fat Chance" |
1981 | Take a Letter, Mr. Jones | Maria | 6 episodes |
1981 | A Kick Up the Eighties | Various roles | 3 episodes |
1981 | The History Man | Melissa Tordoroff | 3 episodes |
1983 | The Black Adder | Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain | Episode: "The Queen of Spain's Beard" |
1984 | Freud | Baroness | TV serial |
1985 | Oliver Twist | Mrs. Corney | TV serial |
1986 | The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | Nurse Hopkins | 2 episodes |
1986 | Blackadder II | Lady Whiteadder | Episode: "Beer" |
1986 | A Little Princess | Miss Amelia | 6 episodes |
1986 | Scotch and Wry | Various | Television film |
1987 | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story |
Elsa Maxwell | Television film |
1988 | Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Queen Victoria | Television Special |
1988 | Mr Majeika | Wilhelmina Worlock | 2 episodes |
1989 | Murderers Among Us | Mrs. Rajzman | Television film |
1990 | Orpheus Descending | Vee Talbot | Television film |
1990 | The Finding | Poll | Television film |
1990 | Screen Two | Nellie | Episode: "Old Flames" |
1991 | Tonight at 8.30 | Mrs. Wadhurst | 2 episodes |
1992 | Stalin | Nadezhda Krupskaya | Television film |
1992 | Frannie's Turn | Frannie Escobar | 6 episodes |
1993 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Mother | Episode: "Demonella" |
1994 | Just William | Miss Polliter | Episode: "William's Busy Day" |
1994 | Moonacre | Old Elspeth | 6 episodes |
1995 | Cold Comfort Farm | Mrs. Beetle | Television film |
1997 | The IMAX Nutcracker | Sugar Plum | Short film |
1997 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | Cook | BBC TV serial |
1997 | The Place of Lions | Miss Cole | Television film |
1998 | Vanity Fair | Miss Crawley | TV serial |
1998–2001 | Rugrats | Shirley Finster | Voice; 3 episodes |
1998 | The First Snow of Winter | Sean McDuck | Voice; UK version |
1998 | Supply & Demand | Chief Superintendent Edna Colley | TV serial |
2000 | Dharma & Greg | Chloe | Episode: "Midwife Crisis" |
2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Mrs. Price-Ridley | Episode: The Murder at the Vicarage |
2004 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Peg Sellers | Television film, HBO |
2005 | Wallis & Edward | Bessie Merryman | Television film |
2005 | Dickens in America | Herself | 10 episodes |
2005 | Inconceivable | Malva | Episode: "Balls in Your Court" |
2006 | Jam & Jerusalem | Mrs. Midge | Season 2, Episode 6 |
2008 | Kingdom | Henny | Episode 2.04 |
2009 | The Sarah Jane Adventures | Leef Slitheen-Blathereen | Voice; 2 episodes |
2010 | Tinga Tinga Tales | Giraffe and Squirrel | Voice; Recurring Role |
2010 | Merlin[48] | Grunhilda | Episode: "The Changeling" |
2011 | Doc Martin | Shirley | Episode: Born with a Shotgun |
2012–15 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Prudence Elizabeth Stanley | 12 episodes |
2013 | Hebburn | Millie | Christmas special |
2014 | Nina Needs to Go! | Nana Sheila | Voice; 15 episodes |
2014 | Trollied | Rose | Series 4 |
2016 | Plebs | Iona | Episode: "The Cupid" |
2016 | Rake | Huntley-Brown | 2 episodes |
2016 | The Real Marigold Hotel | Herself | BBC TV documentary series |
2016–17 | Bottersnikes and Gumbles | Weathersnike | 3 episodes |
2017 | Bucket | Mim | 4 episodes |
2017 | Family Guy | Right Eyeball | Voice; Episode: "Emmy-Winning Episode" |
2018 | Miriam's Big American Adventure | Herself | BBC TV documentary series |
2018– | Call the Midwife | Sister Mildred/Mother Mildred | 6 episodes |
2019 | Miriam's Dead Good Adventure | Herself | BBC TV documentary series |
2019 | 101 Dalmatian Street | Bessie | Voice; Episode: "A Summer to Remember" |
2020 | The Windsors | Queen Victoria | Episode 3.01 |
2020 | Miriam's Big Fat Adventure | Herself | BBC TV documentary series |
2020 | Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian | Herself | ABC TV documentary series |
Notes
- The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) – the voice of the Maiden from Mombasa (original version only; the character was not heard at all in the re-edited versions and another actor was never available in all the re-edited versions)
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) – Peg Sellers – note this film was shown in cinemas in the UK, Ireland, and Australia – it aired on cable television on the HBO network in the US.
Stage
Year | Title | Role | Venue |
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1970 | Fiddler on the Roof | Matchmaker | UK Tour |
1972 | Threepenny Opera | Performer | Piccadilly Theatre, London |
1974 | Canterbury Tales | Wife of Bath | Bristol Old Vic |
1975 | Kennedy's Children | Performer | Arts Theatre, London |
1976 | The White Devil | Performer | Old Vic Theatre, London |
1978 | Cloud Nine | Performer | Joint Stock/Royal Court |
1979 | Flaming Bodies | Psychiatrist | ICA |
1984 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Helen Hanff | Colchester |
1985 | Gertrude Stein and a Companion | Gertrude Stein | International Tour |
1986 | Man Equals Man | Widow Begbick | Almeida Theatre, London |
1989 | Orpheus Descending | Vee Talbot | Haymarket Theatre, London |
1989–91 | Dickens' Women | Performer | Edinburgh Festival Hampstead Theatre Duke of York's Theatre, London |
1993 | She Stoops to Conquer | Mrs. Hardcastle | West End |
1995 | The Killing of Sister George | June Buckridge | West End |
1999 | The Cherry Orchard | Madame Lyubov Andreievna Ranevskaya | Theatre Royal, York |
2001 | Romeo and Juliet | Nurse | Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles |
2001 | The Vagina Monologues | Performer | Arts Theatre, London |
2003 | The Way of the World | Lady Wishfort | Sydney Theatre Company |
2004 | Blithe Spirit | Madame Arcati | Melbourne Theatre Company |
2006 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Miss Prism | Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York |
2006 | Wicked | Madame Morrible | Apollo Victoria Theatre, London |
2008 | George Gershwin Theater, New York | ||
2009 | Realism | Performer | Melbourne Theatre Company |
2009 | Endgame | Nell | Duchess Theatre, London |
2010 | Me and My Girl | The Duchess | Crucible Theatre, Sheffield |
2011 | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Grace | Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow |
2012 | Dickens' Women | Performer | World Tour |
2014 | Neighbourhood Watch | Ana | Adelaide State Theatre |
2014 | I'll Eat You Last | Sue Mengers | Melbourne Theatre Company |
2015 | The Importance of Being Miriam | Performer | Australian Tour |
2017 | Madame Rubinstein | Helena Rubinstein | Park Theatre, London |
2019 | The Lady in the Van | Miss Shepherd | Melbourne Theatre Company |
2019 | Sydney & The Old Girl | Nell Stock | Park Theatre, London |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Refs |
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1989 | Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle | Supporting Actress | Little Dorrit | Won | [49][50] |
1991 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Actress in a Musical | Dickens' Women | Nominated | [51] |
1993 | British Academy Film Award | Best Supporting Actress | The Age of Innocence | Won | [49][52] |
1993 | Sony Radio Award | Best Actress On Radio | The Queen and I | Won | [53] |
1997 | The Talkies Performer of the Year | — | Oliver Twist | Won | [50] |
1999 | British Academy Children's Award | Best Animation | The First Snow of Winter | Won | [54] |
2000 | Prix Jeunesse | Best Children's Programme (Up to 6/Fiction) | The First Snow of Winter | Won | [55] |
2001 | Audiofile's Earphones Award | — | A Christmas Carol | Won | [56] |
2007 | Theatregoer's Choice Award | Best Supporting Actress in a Musical | Wicked | Won | [57] |
2010 | Theatregoer's Choice Award | Best Supporting Actress in a Play | Endgame | Won | [58] |
2018 | Audiofile's Earphones Award | — | Bleak House | Won | [59] |
In 2002, Margolyes was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year honours list as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Services to Drama.[60]
Notes
- ^ However, at least two others said it on British television before that: Brendan Behan on Panorama in 1956 (although his drunken slurring was not understood), and an anonymous man who painted the railings on Stranmillis Embankment alongside the River Lagan in Belfast, who in 1959 told Ulster TV's magazine show, Roundabout, that his job was "fucking boring".[13][14]
References
- ^ Margolyes, Miriam. "Miriam Margolyes » Bio". Miriam Margolyes' official website.
- ^ Empire (23 August 2015). "Miriam Margolyes". Empire. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ BBC One – Matron, Medicine and Me, Series 1, Miriam Margolyes
- ^ Miriam Margolyes Biography (1941–). Filmreference.com. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ "Harry Potter actress Miriam Margolyes on her Gorbals roots, women in comedy and how Monty Python stars shunned her". Daily Record. Scotland. 2 November 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ Farndale, Nigel (11 October 2009). "Miriam Margolyes: 'I'm still a naughty schoolgirl at heart'". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ Chitra Ramaswamy (6 August 2012). "As Miriam Margolyes prepares to perform her one-woman show, dedicated to the women in the victorian novelist's fiction, she reflects on her own fascinating life story". The Scotsman.
- ^ Famous alumnae. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
- ^ Footlights Alumni Archived 14 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Footlights.org. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ https://oxfordhigh.gdst.net/pioneer/miriam-margolyes/
- ^ University Challenge The Story So Far - Documentary, Granada for BBC, aired by BBC 27 December 27 2008, 14:15
- ^ Miriam Margolyes | The Graham Norton Show: the 15 funniest guests – TV
- ^ Moran, Joe (16 August 2013). "Television's magic moments". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ^ Brandreth, Gyles (2018). Have You Eaten Grandma?. Penguin. p. 135. ISBN 978-0241352656. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ "Enough Rope". 1 October 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ^ "The Betty Witherspoon Show Series and Episode Guides – TV from RadioTimes". Radio Times. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ^ Helen Sims (30 November 2007). "Miriam Margolyes on Dickens' Women". The Lumière Reader. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ "Margolyes: Voice of a movie star" 31 December 2001, BBC News
- ^ a b Leah O'Brien (11 May 2010). "At home with Harry Potter star, Miriam Margolyes – Local News – News – Entertainment". Southern Highland News. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "The Graham Norton Show: the 15 funniest guests". The Telegraph. 29 September 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Margolyes to Join Broadway's Wicked Jan. 22. Playbill. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
- ^ Brief Encounter With … Miriam Margolyes – Endgame at Duchess Theatre – London – Interviews. Whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
- ^ Jennifer Wolfe (13 December 2013). "Disney Junior Greenlights 'Nina Needs to Go'". Animation World Network.
- ^ "BBC Two – The Real Marigold Hotel". BBC. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "The Real Marigold on Tour – BBC Two". BBC.
- ^ "Lady C and the Castle". Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "The Real Marigold on Tour gets a "bumper" BBC1 run". Radio Times. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
- ^ "Miriam's Big American Adventure – BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ The Lady in the Van – Melbourne Theatre Company
- ^ Celebrity supporters | Miriam Margolyes Archived 23 October 2008 at archive.today. Sense. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ Michael Church (15 January 2012). "Album: Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi, The Devil's Brides: Yiddish and Klezmer Song (Arc Music) – Reviews – Music". The Independent. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ "JFJFP Signatories" Jews for Justice for Palestinians Signatory List 11 August 2012
- ^ "Miriam Margolyes: 'I do say things possibly other people don't say'". The Guardian. 5 November 2014.
- ^ a b Late Night Live – 10September2007 – Miriam Margolyes and Dickens' Women. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.au (10 September 2007). Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ Dysch, Marcus (18 August 2015). "Anti-Israel activists attack JC for challenging Jeremy Corbyn". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Siobhan, McNally (14 November 2019). "Call The Midwife star Miriam Margolyes backs Labour to help save the NHS". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ Thorpe, Vanessa (24 November 2019). "Celebrities turn out to support Labour's vision for the arts". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ Neale, Matthew (16 November 2019). "Exclusive: New letter supporting Jeremy Corbyn signed by Roger Waters, Robert Del Naja and more". NME. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ Desert Island Discs – 28 September 2008 – Miriam Margolyes. BBC. (28 September 2008). Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ Groves, Nancy (6 November 2014). "Miriam Margolyes: 'I do say things possibly other people don't say'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ Property Observer, "Andrew Denton and Jennifer Byrne blaze a trail to Southern Highlands retreat". Retrieved 7 December 2015
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- ^ Gabriella Coslovich, "Lunch with Miriam Margolyes", Canberra Times, 7 April 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2015
- ^ Jane Cadzow, "Miss Margolyes Mysteries"
- ^ Lyell, Carrie (9 February 2016). "Miriam Margolyes: My Mother Was Utterly Appalled When I Came Out" Archived 3 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Diva Magazine. UK. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ^ "At home with Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes" 11 May 2010, Southern Highland News
- ^ Tim Walker, "David Walliams: Miriam Margolyes is the real-life Awful Auntie", The Daily Telegraph, 2 October 2014.
- ^ Truitt, Brian (23 June 2010). "'Merlin' star Colin Morgan talks dragons and guest stars". USA Weekend. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
- ^ a b "Honours in the arts world". BBC News. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Miriam Margoyles comes to The Brewhouse". Somerset County Gazette. 11 May 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ Goodman, Joan (12 October 1993). "Miriam Margolyse Bubbles On and Off 'Innocence' Set : Movie: As the formidable dowager Mrs. Manson Mingott, the British actress brings verve and audacity to Martin Scorsese's film". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Film | Actress in a Supporting Role in 1994". BAFTA. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "The Queen And I on BBC Radio Four Extra". BBC Media Centre. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Two classic BBC Christmas tales make the perfect festive stocking-fillers for young children" (press release). BBC. 2 October 2002. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ "Prix Jeunesse Winners 2000" (PDF). Diffusion. European Broadcasting Union. Autumn 2000. p. 61. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ "A Christmas Carol: Earphones Award Winner". AudioFile. 2000. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Theatregoers Name Wicked 'Best New Musical'". londontheatredirect.com. 12 February 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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- ^ "Bleak House: Earphones Award Winner". AudioFile. June 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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External links
- Official website
- Miriam Margolyes at IMDb
- Miriam Margolyes at the BFI's Screenonline
- Dickens' Women tour site
- Miriam Margolyes at Women in Comedy
- Living people
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- 20th-century English actresses
- 21st-century English actresses
- Actresses from Oxfordshire
- Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Audiobook narrators
- Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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- Australian people of British-Jewish descent
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- Australian people of Polish-Jewish descent
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