Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes OBE ( born May 18, 1941 in Oxford, England) is a British theater and film actress and voice actress.
Biography
Miriam Margolyes was born as the daughter of Ruth Walters and Joseph Margolyes, a physician in Oxford. She attended the local Oxford High School and then the Newnham College, Cambridge, where she came for the first time in connection with the theater. She was a member of the Cambridge Footlights.
Margolyes worked as a voice actor. Her first starring role was that of Elephant Ethel in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers ( 1977). In 1988, she played the role of Flora Pinching in the movie Little Dorrit ( Little Dorrit ). In the U.S. they made in 1992 by the comedy Frannie's Turn headlines. For her performance in Martin Scorsese's period film The Age of Innocence, she was awarded the 1994 British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. A younger audience it was primarily known in 1996 as the voice of Aunt Sponge in James and the Giant Peach and her role as Professor Pomona Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
In 2004, she played alongside Geoffrey Rush and Charlize Theron in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon in Being Julia. The actress was also seen in some European co-productions such as A touch of sunshine and Kalman's secret. 2001 Queen Elizabeth awarded her the title of Officer of the British Empire.
Margolyes lives since 1968 with her Australian partner. It describes itself as a homosexual and mentioned her relationships with women repeated in the broadcast Desert Iceland Discs on BBC Radio 4 in September 2008.
She interrupted her career to care for her sick mother, and funded a full-time care for her father. She is an activist of a charitable association for short-term care, Crossroads, and also supports Sense, a charity for deafblind people.
She was awarded on Australia Day (26 January ) 2013 in Canberra Australian citizenship.