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Miriam Margolyes

b. 1941

Born in Oxford, Miriam Margolyes, 84, began acting at Cambridge University. In 1994, she won a Bafta for her role in The Age of Innocence and was later cast as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. Her stage credits include Wicked, The Vagina Monologues and Dickens’ Women; her TV work includes Trollied and Blackadder. In 2002, she was made OBE, and in 2022 received a BBC Audio Drama lifetime achievement award. She takes Margolyes and Dickens: More Best Bits to the Edinburgh fringe at the Pleasance at EICC, Pentland theatre from 9-24 August. She lives in London.

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Question What has been your biggest disappointment? Failure & regret read 210 other answers →

Never to have played at the National or the RSC.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗

Question What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? Failure & regret read 113 other answers →

Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗

Question Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? Failure & regret read 55 other answers →

To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗

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