Miriam Margolyes(I)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
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 Le Temps de l'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, le cochon devenu berger (1995).
Major credits include Yentl (1983), La Petite Boutique des horreurs (1986), Je t'aime à te tuer (1990), La Fin des temps (1999), Sunshine (1999), La ferme du mauvais sort (1995), Comme chiens et chats (2001), and Magnolia (1999). She played "Prof. Sprout" in Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets (2002). More recently, she appeared in Stephen Hopkins', Moi, Peter Sellers (2004), Modigliani (2004), István Szabó's Adorable Julia (2004) and Les dames de Cornouailles (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), La vipère noire (1982), The Girls of Slender Means (1975), Oliver Twist (1985), The History Man (1981), Vanity Fair - La foire aux vanités (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.
Major credits include Yentl (1983), La Petite Boutique des horreurs (1986), Je t'aime à te tuer (1990), La Fin des temps (1999), Sunshine (1999), La ferme du mauvais sort (1995), Comme chiens et chats (2001), and Magnolia (1999). She played "Prof. Sprout" in Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets (2002). More recently, she appeared in Stephen Hopkins', Moi, Peter Sellers (2004), Modigliani (2004), István Szabó's Adorable Julia (2004) and Les dames de Cornouailles (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), La vipère noire (1982), The Girls of Slender Means (1975), Oliver Twist (1985), The History Man (1981), Vanity Fair - La foire aux vanités (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.
