She played the Nurse in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). Margolyes played Aunt Sponge and voiced the Glow-Worm in James and the Giant Peach (1996). In 2005 Margolyes hosted a ten-part BBC Four documentary, Dickens in America, which retraced Dickens's 1842 journey across the United States of America. In 1989, Margolyes co-wrote and performed a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, in which she played 23 characters from Dickens' novels.
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). On American television, she headlined the short-lived 1992 CBS sitcom Frannie's Turn. She won the 1989 LA Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Flora Finching in the film Little Dorrit (1988). In 1986, she played a major supporting role in the BBC drama The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. 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. Margolyes's first major role in a film was as Elephant Ethel in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977).
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In 1974, she appeared with Kenneth Williams and Ted Ray in the BBC Radio 2 comedy series The Betty Witherspoon Show.
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She also worked with the theatre company Gay Sweatshop and provided voiceovers in the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (credited as Mirium Margolyes).
She performed most of the supporting female characters in the dubbed Japanese action TV series Monkey. In the 1970s, she recorded a soft-porn audio called Sexy Sonia: Leaves from my Schoolgirl Notebook. With her versatile voice, Margolyes first gained recognition for her work as a voice artist. Career Margolyes reading Oliver Twist in 2006 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 she claims to have used the word in frustration on the show in 1963. There, in her 20s, she began acting and appeared in productions by the Cambridge Footlights. Margolyes attended Oxford High School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English. Her grandfather Margolyes was born in a small shtetl called Amdur (now Indura) in Belarus, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Her maternal great-grandfather, Symeon Sandmann, was born in the Polish town of Margonin, which Margolyes visited in 2013. Her ancestors moved to the UK from Belarus and Poland. The maternal family surname changed from Sandeman to Walters before Margolyes' birth. Margolyes was born in Oxford on, the only child of Joseph Margolyes (1899–1995), a Scottish physician and general practitioner from the Gorbals area of Glasgow, and property-developer Ruth (née Sandeman 1905–1974), daughter of a second-hand furniture dealer and auctioneer at Kirkdale, Liverpool, who later relocated to London. She has also written two books, Dickens' Women (2012) and her autobiography This Much is True (2021). She became an Australian citizen in 2013. Margolyes has spent many years dividing her time between the United Kingdom, Australia and Italy. She has starred in productions in both the United Kingdom and Australia, including her 1989 one-woman show Dickens' Women and the Australian premiere of the 2013 play, I'll Eat You Last.
She is also known for her recurring roles as Prudence Stanley in Australian series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) and Sister Mildred in the BBC series Call the Midwife (2018-2021). Margolyes is also known for her television appearances including Kizzy, Blackadder, Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Vanity Fair (1998), and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). She is also known for her voice roles in Babe (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Mulan (1998), Happy Feet (2006), Flushed Away (2006), and Early Man (2018). She has since appeared in Yentl (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Little Dorrit (1988), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Being Julia (2004). Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.Īfter starting her career in theatre, she made her film acting debut in the British comedy A Nice Girl Like Me (1969). She received a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) and portrayed Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011). She has gained prominence as a character actor on stage and screen. Miriam Margolyes OBE ( / ˈ m ɑːr ɡ əl iː z/ MAR-gə-leez born ) is a British-Australian actress.
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