Miriam Margolyes movies

]]Miriam Margolyes OBE (born May 18, 1941) is a British character actress.BiographyEarly lifeBorn in Oxford, England to a Jewish family of Belarusian origin, Margolyes attended the local Oxford High School. She then attended Newnham College, Cambridge where she began acting in her 20s, in productions by the Gay Sweatshop company. She is one of Britains most sought after supporting players, and has appeared in a number of successful feature films.Acting careerOriginally, it was her work as a voice artist that brought her into the public consciousness. She voiced the female rabbit character in the animated commercials for Cadburys Caramel, and performed most of the supporting female characters in the dubbed Japanese action TV series, Monkey.Margolyes first major role in a film was as a character called Elephant Ethel, and she has since become a familiar face in the world of film and television.Margolyes received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Flora Finching in the 1988 movie Little Dorrit.

In 1993 she won a Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA for her role as Mrs Mingott, the only comic relief in Martin Scorseses The Age Of Innocence, a performance that jump-started her career. Margolyes then began to be noticed by a much younger audience when she starred as Aunt Sponge in James And The Giant Peach; she also did the voice of the Glow Worm in the same movie. Then she starred as another well-known character from a book: Professor Sprout in Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets.Margolyes was recently seen alongside Geoffrey Rush and Charlize Theron in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and (as Dolly de Vries) with Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon in Being Julia. Margolyes also featured as Dorcas the housekeeper in Ladies in Lavender with Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and cropped up in a guest role in ITV mystery drama Marple, a new series transmitted in the UK in 2004, which featured Geraldine McEwan in the title role.She has iconic status within the world of comedy for her remarkably tasteless performance as the Spanish Infanta alongside Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder, and also for portraying a riotously naughty version of Queen Victoria in Blackadders Christmas Carol. She recently starred in the London production of Wicked as Madame Morrible.She is soon to tour Australia in her one woman show "Dickens Women" beginning in September 2007.Margolyes also featured in the British comedy Jam and Jerusalem, which stars Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French and Joanna Lumley.Personal lifeMargolyes keeps her personal life private, but she has not seen any reason to keep it a secret that she is a lesbian, or as she playfully says "deliberately never been married or had children". She took time out of her career to look after her ill mother, and spent quarter of a million pounds on full time care for her father.

Miriam Margolyes Movies

All movies starring Miriam Margolyes.

• Babe
• Cats & Dogs
• End of Days
• Flushed Away
• Happy Feet
• Immortal Beloved
• James and the Giant Peach
• Mulan
• Romeo + Juliet
• The Dukes