On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
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Miriam Margolyes
b. 1941
Arts and letters
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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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To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
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.
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.
Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
Facebook and the need to pee.
Nothing at all.
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