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Miriam Margolyes OBE (born May 18, 1941 in Oxford, England) is a British character actress.

Born in Oxford to a Jewish family of Belarusian origin, Margoyles attended the local Oxford High School. She then attended Cambridge University where she began acting in her 20s, in productions by the Gay Sweatshop company. The grey-haired, heavy-set actress is one of Britain's most sought after supporting players, and has appeared in a number of successful feature films.

Originally, 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 Cadbury's 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 character called Elephant Ethel. 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 Scorsese's The Age of Innocence
, a performance which jump started her career.

Margolyes was recently seen 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
(as Dolly de Vries), 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 Miss Marple, a new series transmitted in the UK in 2004, and featuring Geraldine McEwan in the title role.

Personal life

Margolyes 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 unmarried".

Select Filmography

Yentl
(1983) - Sarah
A Little Princess
(1986)
Little Dorrit
(1988) - Flora
The Age of Innocence
(1993) - Mrs. Mingott
Cold Comfort Farm (1996) - Mrs Beetle
Different for Girls
(1996) - Pamela
Babe
and Babe: Pig in the City
- the voice of Fly the Sheepdog
James and the Giant Peach
- Aunt Sponge, and the voice of the Glowworm
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1996) - The Nurse
Vanity Fair - Miss Crawley
Magnolia
- Faye Barringer
Cats & Dogs
(2001) - Sophie
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
(2002) - Professor Sprout
Ladies in Lavender
(2004)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
(2004) (TV) - Peg Sellers

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