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 th ...
show all 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, Cats & Dogs, Magnolia & was Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Most recently, Margolyes appeared in Stephen Hopkins' The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Modigliani, Istvan Szabo's Being Julia & Ladies in Lavender (with Dames Smith & Dench) which is opening at the NY Tribeca Festival on April 23rd.
Most memorable TV credits include, Old Flames, Freud, Life and Loves of a She Devil, Blackadder, The Girls of Slender Means, Oliver Twist, The History Man, Vanity Fair, Supply & Demand. She was Franny in the CBS sitcom, Frannie's Turn & starred recently in the Miss Marple episode, Murder at the Vicarage.
Stage credits include The Vagina Monologues, Sir Peter Hall's Los Angeles production of Romeo & Juliet, She Stoops to Conquer & Orpheus Descending (all for Sir Peter Hall) The Killing of Sister George, The Threepenny Opera (Tony Richardson) Michael Lindsay-Hogg's The White Devil at The Old Vic, the Bristol Old Vic production of The Canterbury Tales & her own award-winning, one-woman show, DICKENS' WOMAN. In 2002, H.M The Queen awarded her the Order of the British Empire for her services to Drama.
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