Miriam Margolyes, OBE (/ˈmɑrɡəliːz/; born 18 May 1941) is an English born Australian character actress and voice artist. Her earliest roles were in theatre and after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993) and went on to play the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series.
| Full Name | Miriam Margolyes |
| Net Worth | $7 Million |
| Date Of Birth | 1941-05-18 |
| Place Of Birth | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Height | 1.55 m |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Profession | Voice Actor |
| Education | Oxford High School, Oxford, Newnham College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge |
| Nationality | British and Australian |
| Parents | Joseph Margolyes, Ruth Margolyes |
| Partner | Heather Sutherland, Heather Sutherland |
| Nicknames | Miriam Margolyes, Margolyes, Miriam |
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| Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Nominations | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical |
| Movies | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Babe, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Age of Innocence, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Mulan, Ladies in Lavender, Cats & Dogs, End of Days, James and the Giant Peach, Romeo + Juliet, Being Julia, Happy Feet, Maya the Bee M... |
| TV Shows | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Frannie's Turn, Take a Letter, Mr. Jones, The Glittering Prizes, Kizzy, Jam & Jerusalem, A Kick Up the Eighties, Tinga Tinga Tales, A Little Princess, The Black Adder, Oliver Twist, Monkey, Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy, Moonacre, Supply & Demand, Ken Dodd's World... |
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| 1 | [on her mother] She took centre-stage in our lives. She was the star. And when I hear pieces of music that my mother liked, I weep. I think it's true that the people you've loved in your life never leave you, because seeds of that love always remain flowering somewhere. |
| 2 | I used to sleep around and be silly because I thought I was an ugly, fat little person and couldn't believe that anyone would want me. So I did it to prove I could get someone. |
| 3 | Early patterns are very important. They are the paradigm for relationships, since they are the earliest ones you observe. I am a clone of my mother, whereas my partner is like my father in that she's a thoughtful person, a scholar, who is extremely quiet, not demonstrative. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | I think it's very likely that because (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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | I'm not the sort of woman men boast of having slept with. |
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| 1 | Lifelong friends with Jane Cussons, Patricia Hodge and Mary Tamm, her co-stars in The Girls of Slender Means (1975). |
| 2 | Appearing in the Broadway production of "Wicked". [April 2008] |
| 3 | 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] |
| 4 | Playing Madame Morrible in the London production of Wicked. [December 2006] |
| 5 | Sydney, Australia [July 2004] |
| 6 | Doing The Importance of Being Earnest on Broadway. [2005] |
| 7 | Rehersing for a tour of Importance of Being Earnest with Lynn Redgrave. The tour stops in LA and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. [2005] |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | She has been with her partner, an Australian academic, since 1968. |
| 10 | Her mother Ruth died in 1974 and her father Joseph died in 1995. |
| 11 | 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 carers. |
| 12 | 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). |
| 13 | Was offered the role of Professor Laird in Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks: Part One (1984). Chole Ashcroft took the role. |
| 14 | Attended Oxford High School GDST. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | Is of Belarussian-Jewish descent. |
| 17 | Works and has homes in the US, UK and Australia. |
| 18 | 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. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| The Wedding Video | 2012 | Patricia |
| Sir Billi | 2012 | Chantalle McToff (voice) |
| In Love with Dickens | 2012 | TV Movie | Mrs. Gamp |
| Doc Martin | 2011 | TV Series | Shirley Dunwich |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | Professor Pomona Sprout |
| The Itch of the Golden Nit | 2011 | Short | Mummy Socks (voice) |
| Merlin | 2010 | TV Series | Grunhilda |
| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | 2010 | Mrs. Plithiver (voice) |
| Coming of Age | 2010 | TV Series | Doreen |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures | 2009 | TV Series | Leaf Blathereen |
| Blind Revenge | 2009 | Mrs. Kilbride |
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | 2008 | Mrs. Kowalski |
| Kingdom | 2008 | TV Series | Henny |
| American Dad! | 2007 | TV Series | Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| The Dukes | 2007 | Aunt Vee |
| Clatterford | 2006 | TV Series | Mrs. Joyce Midge |
| Linksmos pedutes | 2006 | Mrs. Astrakhan (voice) |
| Flushed Away | 2006 | Rita's Grandma (voice) |
| Wallis & Edward | 2005 | TV Movie | Aunt Bessie |
| Inconceivable | 2005 | TV Series | Malva |
| Agatha Christie's Marple | 2004 | TV Series | Mrs. Price-Ridley |
| Modigliani | 2004 | Gertrude Stein |
| Being Julia | 2004 | Dolly de Vries |
| Ladies in Lavender | 2004 | Dorcas |
| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | 2004 | Peg Sellers |
| End of the Line | 2004 | Short | Bag Lady |
| Chasing Liberty | 2004 | Maria |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Professor Pomona Sprout |
| Undertaking Betty | 2002 | Thelma / Selma |
| Dickens | 2002 | TV Series | Catherine Dickens |
| Alone | 2002 | Caseworker |
| Not Afraid, Not Afraid | 2001 |
| Cats & Dogs | 2001 | Sophie the Castle Maid |
| Magic Grandad | 2001 | TV Series | Grandmama |
| Rugrats | 1998-2001 | TV Series | Shirley Finster |
| Dharma & Greg | 2000 | TV Series | Chloe |
| House! | 2000 | Beth |
| Magnolia | 1999 | Faye Barringer (uncredited) |
| End of Days | 1999 | Mabel |
| Dreaming of Joseph Lees | 1999 | Signora Caldoni |
| Sunshine | 1999 | Rose Sonnenschein |
| Candy | 1998/I | Gisella |
| The First Snow of Winter | 1998 | Short | Sean (voice) |
| Babe: Pig in the City | 1998 | Fly (voice) |
| Vanity Fair | 1998 | TV Mini-Series | Miss Crawley |
| Supply & Demand | 1998 | TV Mini-Series | Edna |
| Mulan | 1998 | The Matchmaker (voice) |
| Left Luggage | 1998 | Mrs. Goldman |
| The Place of Lions | 1997 | TV Movie | Miss Cole |
| The IMAX Nutcracker | 1997 | Short | Sugar Plum |
| The Phoenix and the Carpet | 1997 | TV Mini-Series | Cook |
| Romeo + Juliet | 1996 | The Nurse |
| James and the Giant Peach | 1996 | Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice) |
| Different for Girls | 1996 | Pamela |
| Balto | 1995 | Grandma Rosy / Extra Voices |
| Babe | 1995 | Fly (voice) |
| Cold Comfort Farm | 1995 | TV Movie | Mrs. Beetle |
| Just William | 1994 | TV Series | Miss Polliter |
| Immortal Beloved | 1994 | Nanette Streicherová |
| Moonacre | 1994 | TV Series | Old Elspeth |
| Ed and His Dead Mother | 1993 | Mabel Chilton |
| The Age of Innocence | 1993 | Mrs. Mingott |
| The Comic Strip Presents... | 1993 | TV Series | Mother |
| The Princess and the Cobbler | 1993 | Maiden from Mombassa (original version) (voice) |
| Stalin | 1992 | TV Movie | Krupskaya |
| As You Like It | 1992 | Audrey |
| Frannie's Turn | 1992 | TV Series | Frannie Escobar |
| The Butcher's Wife | 1991 | Gina |
| Dead Again | 1991 | Lady (uncredited) |
| Tonight at 8.30 | 1991 | TV Series | Nanny / Mrs. Wadhurst |
| The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | 1990 | TV Movie | Mother / Mrs Woodcutter (voice) |
| The Fool | 1990 | Mrs. Bowring |
| Pacific Heights | 1990 | Realtor |
| Orpheus Descending | 1990 | TV Movie | Vee Talbot |
| I Love You to Death | 1990 | Joey's Mother |
| Screen Two | 1990 | TV Series | Nellie |
| The Play on One | 1989 | TV Series | Laughter |
| Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | 1989 | TV Movie | Mrs. Rajzman |
| Muzzy Comes Back | 1989 | TV Series | The Queen / Norman's Wife (voice) |
| Blackadder's Christmas Carol | 1988 | TV Short | Queen Victoria |
| Mr. Majeika | 1988 | TV Series | Wilhelmina Worlock |
| Body Contact | 1987 | Tony's Mother |
| The Finding | 1987 | TV Movie | Poll |
| Little Dorrit | 1987 | Flora Finching |
| Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | 1987 | TV Movie | Elsa Maxwell |
| Muzzy in Gondoland | 1987 | TV Series | The Queen / Mary / Toothache Patient |
| A Little Princess | 1987 | TV Mini-Series | Miss Amelia |
| Scotch & Wry | 1986 | Video | Various |
| Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Dental Nurse |
| The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | 1986 | TV Mini-Series | Nurse Hopkins |
| Black-Adder II | 1986 | TV Series | Lady Whiteadder |
| Oliver Twist | 1985 | TV Mini-Series | Mrs. Corney / Mrs. Bumble |
| The Good Father | 1985 | Jane Powell |
| Morons from Outer Space | 1985 | Doctor Wallace |
| Freud | 1984 | TV Mini-Series | Baroness von Lieben |
| Electric Dreams | 1984 | Ticket Girl |
| Yentl | 1983 | Sarah |
| Gunfight at the Joe Kaye Corral | 1983 | TV Movie | Cynthia |
| The Black Adder | 1983 | TV Series | Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain |
| Scrubbers | 1982 | Jones |
| Crystal Gazing | 1982 | Newsreader |
| Crown Court | 1976-1982 | TV Series | Mrs. King / Marilyn Munro |
| Reds | 1981 | Woman Writing in Notebook (uncredited) |
| Take a Letter Mr. Jones | 1981 | TV Series | Maria |
| A Kick Up the Eighties | 1981 | TV Series | Various Roles |
| The History Man | 1981 | TV Mini-Series | Melissa Tordoroff |
| The Lost Tribe | 1980 | TV Mini-Series | Queenie |
| The Apple | 1980 | Landlady |
| The Awakening | 1980 | Dr. Kadira |
| Tales of the Unexpected | 1980 | TV Series | Mary Burge |
| On a Paving Stone Mounted | 1978 |
| Monkey | 1978 | TV Series voice |
| The Law Centre | 1978 | TV Series | Mrs. Lossos |
| Play for Today | 1977 | TV Series | Veronica |
| Chalk and Cheese | 1977 | TV Series | Rose Finn |
| Spasms | 1977 | TV Movie | Rose Finn |
| Confessions of a Summer Camp Councillor | 1977 | Blackbird (voice, uncredited) |
| Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers | 1977 | Elephant Ethel |
| The Battle of Billy's Pond | 1976 | Tour Guide |
| Christmas Box | 1976 | TV Movie | Maurie Kaplan's Mother |
| Angels | 1976 | TV Series | Carol / June Morris |
| Plays for Britain | 1976 | TV Series | Miriam / Miss Babberton |
| The Glittering Prizes | 1976 | TV Mini-Series | Olive Wise |
| Kizzy | 1976 | TV Series | Mrs. Doe |
| Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 1975 | Dorothy Wordsworth |
| The Girls of Slender Means | 1975 | TV Series | Jane Wright |
| Naughty Girls | 1975 | Girls' voices (voice, uncredited) |
| World of Laughter | 1974 | TV Series |
| Fall of Eagles | 1974 | TV Mini-Series | Anna Vyrubova |
| Childhood | 1974 | TV Series | Mademoiselle |
| Sex Through the Ages | 1974 | Narrator (voice, uncredited) |
| Doctor in Charge | 1973 | TV Series | Doris |
| Jackanory Playhouse | 1972 | TV Series | The Witch |
| A Nice Girl Like Me | 1969 | Pensione |
| ITV Playhouse | 1969 | TV Series | Kathie |
| Thirty-Minute Theatre | 1969 | TV Series | Voice |
| Jackanory | 1968 | TV Series | Storyteller |
| Dixon of Dock Green | 1968 | TV Series | Anna |
| Boy Meets Girl | 1967 | TV Series | Maria |
| ITV Play of the Week | 1967 | TV Series | Heidi |
| Theatre 625 | 1965 | TV Series | Rita |
| Honeysuckle | 2014 | Short completed | Patricia |
| Phantasmagoria: The Movie | announced | Harriet |
| Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | 2012-2015 | TV Series | Aunt Prudence |
| Trollied | 2014 | TV Series | Rose |
| The Legend of Longwood | 2014 | Lady Thyrza |
| Outlier | 2014/I | Short | Odamee Marshall |
| Maya the Bee Movie | 2014 | The Queen (English version, voice) |
| The Seventeenth Kind | 2014 | Short | Mrs. Mark |
| Nina Needs to Go | 2014 | TV Mini-Series | Nana Sheila |
| Hebburn | 2013 | TV Series | Millie |
| Spirit-ED | 2012 | Short | Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup |
| The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas | 2012 | TV Movie | Mrs. Daniels / Mrs. Rat / Judith (voice) |
| The Guilt Trip | 2012 | Anita |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| VE Day: Remembering Victory | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| The Graham Norton Show | 2007-2014 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Loose Women | 2009-2014 | TV Series | Herself |
| Mark Lawson Talks to... | 2013 | TV Series | Herself |
| Inside Out | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| The First Fagin | 2012 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Let's Do Lunch with Gino & Mel | 2012 | TV Series | Herself |
| Q&A | 2012 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist |
| First Tuesday Book Club | 2012 | TV Series | Herself - Guest Panelist |
| The Review Show | 2011 | TV Series | Herself - Commentator |
| The One Show | 2011 | TV Series | Herself - Childhood Home Revisitor |
| Blue Peter | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
| Breakfast | 2006-2011 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Blackadder Rides Again | 2008 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Roald Dahl's Revolting Rule Book | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Arena | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Narrator |
| Greatest Ever Romantic Movies | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| A Tribute to John Inman | 2007 | TV Short documentary | Herself (as Miriam Margolyes OBE) |
| The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| What the Pythons Did Next... | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Royal Variety Performance 2006 | 2006 | TV Movie | Performer |
| University Challenge: The Story So Far | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Greatest Ever Blockbuster Movies | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Top 50 Greatest Celebrity Animals | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Dickens in America | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| This Morning | 1995-2004 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Art of the Garden | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Gertrude Jekyll |
| V Graham Norton | 2003 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Interviews with Professors & More | 2003 | Video documentary short | Herself |
| Britain's Finest | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| From Hollywood to Borehamwood | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| 40 Years of University Challenge | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Heroes of Comedy | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Another Audience with Ken Dodd | 2002 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member |
| In Search of Peace | 2001 | Documentary | Esther Cailingold (voice) |
| Omnibus | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Reputations | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| The 50th British Academy Film Awards | 1998 | TV Special | Herself - Audience Member |
| The Long Way Home | 1997 | Documentary voice |
| Living Proof | 1997 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Narrator |
| Richard and Judy Exclusive | 1997 | TV Series | Herself |
| Liberation | 1994 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1992 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Aspel & Company | 1992 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Echoes That Remain | 1991 | Documentary | Narrator |
| The Media Show | 1988 | TV Series | Herself |
| Wogan | 1985 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti | 1984 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| The Living Body | 1984 | TV Series documentary | Herself - Narrator (1984) (voice) |
| The South Bank Show | 1979 | TV Series documentary | Herself / Vic (Act Two 'Cloud Nine') |
