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 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 (1993), she received Best Supporting Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role in Little Dorrit (1987) and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress in 1993. She voiced "Fly, the dog" in Babe (1995).Major credits include Yentl (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), I Love You to Death (1990), End of Days (1999), Sunshine (1999), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Cats & Dogs (2001), and Magnolia (1999). She played "Prof. Sprout" in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). More recently, she appeared in Stephen Hopkins', The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Modigliani (2004), Istv��n Szab��'s Being Julia (2004) and Ladies in Lavender (2004) (with Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench).Memorable television credits include Old Flames (1990), Freud (1984), The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986), Blackadder (1982), The Girls of Slender Means (1975), Oliver Twist (1985), The History Man (1981), Vanity Fair (2004), and Supply & Demand (1997).Stage credits include Peter Hall's Los Angeles production of "Romeo & Juliet"; "She Stoops to Conquer" and "Orpheus Descending" (both also for Peter Hall); "The Threepenny Opera" (directed by Tony Richardson); "The White Devil" at The Old Vic (for Michael Lindsay-Hogg); 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, Queen Elizabeth II awarded her the OBE for her services to Drama.
Bio:
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 (1993), she received Best Supporting Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role in Little Dorrit (1987) and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress in 1993. She voiced "Fly, the dog" in Babe (1995).Major credits include Yentl (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), I Love You to Death (1990), End of Days (1999), Sunshine (1999), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Cats & Dogs (2001), and Magnolia (1999). She played "Prof. Sprout" in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). More recently, she appeared in Stephen Hopkins', The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Modigliani (2004), Istv��n Szab��'s Being Julia (2004) and Ladies in Lavender (2004) (with Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench).Memorable television credits include Old Flames (1990), Freud (1984), The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986), Blackadder (1982), The Girls of Slender Means (1975), Oliver Twist (1985), The History Man (1981), Vanity Fair (2004), and Supply & Demand (1997).Stage credits include Peter Hall's Los Angeles production of "Romeo & Juliet"; "She Stoops to Conquer" and "Orpheus Descending" (both also for Peter Hall); "The Threepenny Opera" (directed by Tony Richardson); "The White Devil" at The Old Vic (for Michael Lindsay-Hogg); 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, Queen Elizabeth II awarded her the OBE for her services to Drama.
Tivia:
Voiced the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny in the British adverts.Playing Madame Morrible in the London production of Wicked. (December 2006)Lived and worked in the U.S. for 16 years.Since 1968, her partner has been Australian academic Heather Sutherland. Became an Australian citizen on 26 January 2013. She was part of the Australia Day ceremony attended by Prime Minister Julia Gillard (who was born in Wales).She is a huge admirer of the works of Charles Dickens and has toured the world in a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, inspired by the females in his works.Canberra, Australia: Becoming a naturalised Australian citizen - "I've wanted to be an Australian for a very long time. My partner is Australian." (January 2013)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.Despite playing their grandmother in The Age of Innocence (1993), Margoyles is just 17 years older than Michelle Pfeiffer and 30 years older than Winona Ryder.Appearing in the Broadway production of "Wicked". (April 2008)Was offered the role of Professor Laird in Resurrection of the Daleks: Part One (1984). Chole Ashcroft took the role.Attended Oxford High School GDST.Lifelong friends with Jane Cussons, Patricia Hodge and Mary Tamm, her co-stars in The Girls of Slender Means (1975).Aged 21 or 22 she was a contestant on ITV quiz show 'University Challenge' representing Newnham College, Cambridge in 1963. Although the videotape no longer exists, still off-air photographs of her on the team panel do survive and can be found online. Apparently she swore after answering a question wrong and this had to be edited out of the broadcast tape.Of Belarussian-Jewish descent, she is the daughter of Joseph (1899-1995) and Ruth (n��e Walters) Margolyes (1905-1974). She took time out of her career to nurse her mother and spent a quarter of a million pounds on full-time care for her father. She supports charities for disabled people and their careers.Despite playing her mother in The Age of Innocence (1993), Margoyles is just 3 years older than Geraldine Chaplin.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.When asked in an interview which of her own film was her personal favorite, she named Sunshine (1999) starring Ralph Fiennes. |
| Name: |
Miriam Margolyes |
Type: |
Actress,Soundtrack (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Soundtrack |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Soundtrack |
| Model rank: |
596 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 04:26:25 |
| Height: |
5' 1' (1.55 m) |
| 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 (1993), she received Best Supporting Actress |
| Trivia: |
Voiced the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny in the British adverts.Playing Madame Morrible in the London production of Wicked. (December 2006)Lived and worked in the U.S. for 16 years.Since 1968, her partner has been Australian academic Heather Sutherland. Became an Australian citizen on 26 January 2013. She was part of the Australia Day ceremony attended by Prime Minister Julia Gillard (who was born in Wales).She is a huge admirer of the works of Charles Dickens and has toured the world in a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, inspired by the females in his works.Canberra, Australia: Becoming a naturalised Australian citizen - "I've wanted to be an Australian for a very long time. My partner is Australian." (January 2013)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.Despite playing their grandmother in The Age of Innocence (1993), Margoyles is just 17 years older than Michelle Pfeiffer and 30 years older than Winona Ryder.Appearing in the Broadway production of "Wicked". (April 2008)Was offered the role of Professor Laird in Resurrection of the Daleks: Part One (1984). Chole Ashcroft took the role.Attended Oxford High School GDST.Lifelong friends with Jane Cussons, Patricia Hodge and Mary Tamm, her co-stars in The Girls of Slender Means (1975).Aged 21 or 22 she was a contestant on ITV quiz show 'University Challenge' representing Newnham College, Cambridge in 1963. Although the videotape no longer exists, still off-air photographs of her on the team panel do survive and can be found online. Apparently she swore after answering a question wrong and this had to be edited out of the broadcast tape.Of Belarussian-Jewish descent, she is the daughter of Joseph (1899-1995) and Ruth (n��e Walters) Margolyes (1905-1974). She took time out of her career to nurse her mother and spent a quarter of a million pounds on full-time care for her father. She supports charities for disabled people and their careers.Despite playing her mother in The Age of Innocence (1993), Margoyles is just 3 years older than Geraldine Chaplin.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.When asked in an interview which of her own film was her personal favorite, she named Sunshine (1999) starring Ralph Fiennes. |
| Quotes: |
I'm not the sort of woman men boast of having slept with.
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As you certainly know, Queen Victoria did not believe in lesbianism. So that was why it was never a criminal offense, in the way homosexuality was, because she thought it was impossible.
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I'm an actress and I am a scholar of English literature. And I never know which part of that is more important to me. I think it obviously must be the acting part because otherwise I would have become an academic, which I didn't do. But I've always had a love of English literature and particularly of Charles Dickens.
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I think it's very likely that because Dickens [Charles Dickens] was able to depict - in a way that I don't think had ever been done before - people's real lives, it had an enormous response among the poor. So he was the last great artist whose work was appreciated by everybody. People at the very top and the very bottom loved Dickens. Queen Victoria asked him to come and read for her and people in the street would clap him as he went. And he very much needed that contact with real people. It mattered to him. He felt, I think, that he was a man of the people. And he was.
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Nowadays people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up the parents defined the child. And my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Soundtrack |
| Others works: |
Was the voice of the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit.
Played Mme. Ranevskaya in a production of Anton Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard" in York, England.
Radio (2005): Played "Smelly Photocopier Woman" in the Hitchhiker's Guide t |
| Spouse: |
Heather Sutherland (? - present) |
| Parents: |
Ruth
Joseph |
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