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Miriam Margolyes

June 2024

  • Steve Coogan

    More than 100 artists tell Starmer to halt arms sales to Israel if he becomes PM

    Letter signatories from Steve Coogan to Paloma Faith urge Keir Starmer to ‘take stand’ for human rights and international law

April 2024

  • Miriam Margolyes photographed at her home in London. Miriam’s Big Fat Adventure is a new two-part series coming to BBC Two starring Margoyles. Miriam Margolyes is a British-Australian actress and voice artist. Her earliest roles were in theatre and after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993) and was cast in the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series. For many years she has divided her time between England and Australia, and she has starred in productions in both countries, including the Australian premiere of the 2013 play I'll Eat You Last. In 2013, she became an Australian citizen, thereby holding dual British and Australian citizenship

    Miriam Margolyes condemns Israel’s policy in Gaza, calling on Jews to ‘shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire’

    In a recent clip, Margolyes added that ‘we have to do, as my mother used to say, the right thing … voice your disgust and detestation of the Israeli actions’

March 2024

  • Simon Callow in The Mystery of Charles Dickens at the Comedy theatre, London, in 2000.

    Great expectations and a bleak house: the promise and perils of staging Dickens

  • Graham Norton Show - London<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY Miriam Margolyes during the filming for the Graham Norton Show at BBC Studioworks 6 Television Centre, Wood Lane, London, to be aired on BBC One on Friday evening. PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday November 4, 2021. Photo credit should read: PA Media on behalf of So TV

    ‘Extraordinary’: 101 women narrate A History of Women in 101 Objects audiobook

October 2023

  • Emma Beddington

    Maggie Smith, Miriam Margolyes, Harriet Walter … I can’t get enough of the new fashion icons

    Emma Beddington
  • Miriam Margolyes.

    Audiobook of the week
    Oh Miriam! by Miriam Margolyes audiobook review – eye-watering candour

September 2023

  • Miriam Margolyes by Dean Chalkley

    Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes review – a ‘national trinket’ remembers

    The actor follows her unfettered 2021 memoir with a miscellany of showbiz tales, agony aunt advice and her F-bomb on the Today programme
  • Miriam Margolyes sits on a blue sofa wearing a yellow top and an orange scarf

    Miriam Margolyes to star as ‘the Meep’ in Doctor Who 60th-anniversary series

    Actor, 82, said her new role as an alien in the sci-fi series has made ‘an old woman very happy’
  • Actor Miriam Margolyes in white shirt, beige jacket and black hat, against blue background

    Miriam Margolyes: ‘I don’t just want to be a foul-mouthed old biddy’

    She may be our naughtiest national treasure, but Miriam Margolyes still wants to be admired for her acting. She talks about the joy of later-life fame and the many men – from Jagger to Beatty to Schwarzenegger – who have appalled her

June 2023

  • Dilyn in the snow in the garden of No 10 Downing Street.

    Brief letters
    Please, spare us more pictures of Boris Johnson

    Brief letters: Dilyn the dog photos | Bernard Jenkin’s recollection | Miriam Margolyes | Sacrilegious autocorrect

April 2023

  • Australian comedian Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna dies at 89 years<br>epa10585667 (FILE) - Australian entertainer Barry Humphries is seen at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia, 24 July 2012 (issued 22 April 2023). Entertainer Barry Humphries, who brought to life 'Dame Edna Everage' and 'Sir Les Patterson', has died 22 April 2023 in a Sydney hospital at the age of 89 years surrounded by family. EPA/JULIAN SMITH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

    Australian arts in focus
    Barry Humphries: Melbourne comedy festival says tribute is in works after criticism

    Organisers exploring ‘a fitting tribute’ after friends say performer was hurt by decision to rename festival award after comments he made about trans people

March 2023

  • Pfeiffer and Day-Lewis in The Age of Innocence.

    The Age of Innocence review – Scorsese’s brilliant tragedy of New York society manners

    Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer are powerfully matched as guilty lovers in an Edith Wharton adaptation that bears comparison with Hollywood’s golden age classics

February 2023

  • Female ducks bred for the production of foie gras

    ‘Torture in a tin’: Miriam Margolyes and others urge ban on foie gras imports

  • Jerusalem.

    Leading artists criticise Barbican’s collaboration with Israeli embassy for concert

January 2023

  • Very big red-yellow clown shoes

    Brief letters
    The long and short of being a 6ft teen

    Brief letters: Trials of being tall | Meeting Miriam Margolyes | Jumpsuits on planes | Brief letter boost | Alan Sugar does irony
  • Miriam Margolyes photographed at her home in London. Miriam’s Big Fat Adventure is a new two-part series coming to BBC Two starring Margoyles. Miriam Margolyes is a British-Australian actress and voice artist. Her earliest roles were in theatre and after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993) and was cast in the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series. For many years she has divided her time between England and Australia, and she has starred in productions in both countries, including the Australian premiere of the 2013 play I'll Eat You Last. In 2013, she became an Australian citizen, thereby holding dual British and Australian citizenship

    The reader interview
    Miriam Margolyes: ‘People have this idea that I’m a walking cesspit. I think it’s quite unfair’

    The outspoken doyenne of stage, film and television answers your questions on who’s nice (and who’s not) in Hollywood, the voice she can’t bear and why she likes talking about sex
  • Hurricane Ian as seen from the International Space Station above the Caribbean Sea, east of Belize.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: take a look at events of the past 12 months – from space

    It’s been a year of huge news on Earth, but how are things looking from up above? Plus: Waterloo Road returns. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2022

  • Miriam Margolyes by Dean Chalkley

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Miriam Margolyes

    Have you something to ask the outspoken doyen of stage and screen? Then send it our way and we’ll put it to her
  • Miriam Margolyes with a group of Christmas carollers.

    TV review
    Miriam’s Dickensian Christmas review – Margolyes is as punchy and rich as a boozy pudding

    The lifelong Dickens fan is an absolute joy to watch when she’s reading from his work – and at one point you’ll wish she was our queen. But this show needed more fury about poverty
  • Too hard-hitting? … Matthew Perry, author of Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.

    Have we fallen out of love with celebrity memoirs?

    The year’s autobiography big-hitters haven’t sold as well as expected, with buyers disenchanted by pricing and lack of feelgood topics
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