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Miriam Margolyes

MIRIAM MARGOLYES  (1941 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    United Agents  represented by Lindy king and Olivia Homan


Miriam Margolyes, OBE (born 18 May 1941)[1] is an English actress and voice artist. Acclaimed on stage and screen, Miriam won an LA Critics Circle Award for her role as Flora Finching in the film of Little Dorrit and has become a firm favourite with filmgoers in a range of roles including Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorcese's The Age of Innocence (which won her a BAFTA), Ladies in Lavender, Being Julia, Babe and Happy Feet. Most memorable TV credits include Old Flames, Freud, Life and Loves of a She Devil, Blackadder, The Girls of Slender Means, Oliver Twist, The History Man, Vanity Fair, Supply & Demand. She was Franny in the CBS sitcom, Frannie's Turn and the Miss Marple episode, Murder at the Vicarage. She is the presenter of the popular BBC documentary series Dickens in America and most recently played Madam Morrible in the hit West End musical Wicked. In 2002, Her Majesty The Queen awarded her the Order of the British Empire for Services to Drama.

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below is a list of Miriam Margolyes's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Dickens' Women         Wooman, Lovely. . .

Dickens' Women

Synopsis:
Dickens' Women takes audiences on a trip into history, through the lives of the women in Charles Dickens' life - real and fiction. In the show Miriam Margolyes brings to life 23 different characters (male and female) including many old favourites: The Old Curiosity Shop's Little Nell, loyal Mrs Micawber from David Copperfield (inspired by Dickens' own mother) and the cold embittered Miss Havisham from Great Expectations.

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Devised By Miriam Margolyes And Sonia Fraser

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Wooman, Lovely. . .

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Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh    1989

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