Miriam Margolyes

Margolyes in 2008
Born (1941-05-18) 18 May 1941
Oxford, England
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Actress
  • comedian
  • narrator
  • author
Years active1963–present
PartnerHeather Sutherland (1969–present)
Websitemiriammargolyes.com

Miriam Margolyes OBE (/ˈmɑːrɡəlz/ MAR-gə-leez; born 18 May 1941) is an English-Australian actress. She has gained prominence as a character actor on stage and screen. She received a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), and portrayed Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011). Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.

After starting her career in theatre, she made her film acting debut in the British comedy A Nice Girl Like Me (1969). She has since appeared in Yentl (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Little Dorrit (1988), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Being Julia (2004). She is also known for her voice roles in Babe (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Mulan (1998), Happy Feet (2006), Flushed Away (2006), and Early Man (2018).

Margolyes is also known for her television appearances including Kizzy, Blackadder, Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Vanity Fair (1998), and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). She is also known for her recurring roles as Prudence Stanley in Australian series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) and Sister Mildred in the BBC series Call the Midwife (2018-2021). She has starred in productions in both the United Kingdom and Australia, including her 1989 one-woman show Dickens' Women and the Australian premiere of the 2013 play, I'll Eat You Last.

Margolyes has spent many years dividing her time between the United Kingdom, Australia and Italy. She became an Australian citizen in 2013.[1] She has also written three books, Dickens' Women (2012), her autobiography This Much is True (2021) and Oh Miriam (2023)

Early life

Margolyes was born in Oxford on 18 May 1941,[2] the only child of Joseph Margolyes (1899–1995), a Scottish physician and general practitioner from the Gorbals area of Glasgow,[3] and property-developer Ruth[4] (née Sandeman; 1905–1974),[5] daughter of a second-hand furniture dealer and auctioneer at Kirkdale, Liverpool, who later relocated to London. The maternal family surname changed from Sandeman to Walters before Margolyes' birth.[6][7][8] She grew up in a Jewish family.[9][10][11] Her ancestors moved to the UK from Belarus and Poland. Her maternal great-grandfather, Symeon Sandmann, was born in the Polish town of Margonin, which Margolyes visited in 2013. Her grandfather Margolyes was born in a small shtetl called Amdur (now Indura) in Belarus, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire.[12]

Margolyes attended Oxford High School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English.[13] There, in her 20s, she began acting and appeared in productions by the Cambridge Footlights.[14] She represented Newnham College in the first series of University Challenge, where she may have been one of the first people to say "fuck" on British television;[15] she claims to have used the word in frustration on the show in 1963.[16][17][lower-alpha 1]

Career

Margolyes reading Oliver Twist in 2006

With her versatile voice, Margolyes first gained recognition for her work as a voice artist. In the 1970s, she recorded a soft-porn audio called Sexy Sonia: Leaves from my Schoolgirl Notebook.[20] She performed most of the supporting female characters in the dubbed Japanese action TV series Monkey. She also worked with the theatre company Gay Sweatshop and provided voiceovers in the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (credited as Mirium Margolyes).

In 1974, she appeared with Kenneth Williams and Ted Ray in the BBC Radio 2 comedy series The Betty Witherspoon Show.[21]

Margolyes's first major role in a film was as Elephant Ethel in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977). In the 1980s, she made appearances in Blackadder opposite Rowan Atkinson: these roles include the Spanish Infanta in The Black Adder, Lady Whiteadder in Blackadder II and Queen Victoria in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. In 1986, she played a major supporting role in the BBC drama The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. She won the 1989 LA Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Flora Finching in the film Little Dorrit (1988). On American television, she headlined the short-lived 1992 CBS sitcom Frannie's Turn.[22] In 1994, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993).[23]

In 1989, Margolyes co-wrote and performed a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, in which she played 23 characters from Dickens' novels.[24] In 2005 Margolyes hosted a ten-part BBC Four documentary, Dickens in America, which retraced Dickens's 1842 journey across the United States of America.[25]

Margolyes played Aunt Sponge and voiced the Glow-Worm in James and the Giant Peach (1996). She played the Nurse in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). She voiced the rabbit character in the animated commercials for Cadbury's Caramel bars[26] and provided the voice of Fly the dog in the Australian-American family film Babe (1995).[27]

She played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and again in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). In a 2011 interview on The Graham Norton Show, in regard to her Potter costars, Margolyes said that she got on well with Maggie Smith, but rather bluntly admitted that she "didn't like the one that died", referring to Richard Harris.[28]

In 2004, Margolyes played the role of Peg Sellers, the mother of Peter Sellers, in the Golden Globe winning film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.[29][30]

Margolyes was one of the original cast of the London production of the musical Wicked opposite Idina Menzel in 2006, playing Madame Morrible, a role she played again on Broadway in 2008.[31]

In 2009, she appeared in a new production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett at the Duchess Theatre in the West End.[32]

Margolyes voiced the role of Mrs. Plithiver, a blind snake, in the 3D-animated-epic film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010).

In 2011, Margolyes recorded a narrative for the album The Devil's Brides by klezmer musician-ethnographer Yale Strom.[33]

Margolyes played recurring character Prudence Stanley in the Australian-based TV series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries from 2012 to 2015.

In 2014, she voiced Nana in the Disney Junior animated series Nina Needs to Go![34]

In January 2016, Margolyes appeared in The Real Marigold Hotel, a travel documentary in which a group of eight celebrities traveled to India to see whether retirement would be more rewarding there than in the UK.[35] The series was reprised for two Christmas Specials The Real Marigold On Tour, from Florida and Kyoto.[36] She narrated the 2016 ITV documentary about Lady Colin Campbell entitled Lady C and the Castle.[37]

In December 2017, Margolyes appeared in the second season of The Real Marigold On Tour to Chengdu and Havana.[38] She appeared in the first episode of the third series, in which she traveled to St Petersburg with Bobby George, Sheila Ferguson and Stanley Johnson.

In January 2018, Margolyes hosted a three-part series for the BBC titled Miriam's Big American Adventure, highlighting the citizens of the United States and the issues facing the country.[39] She voiced Queen Oofeefa in the film Early Man.

Since 2018, Margolyes has portrayed Mother Mildred in the BBC One drama, Call The Midwife.

She played Miss Shepherd in a 2019 production of The Lady in the Van for the Melbourne Theatre Company in Melbourne in Australia.[40]

In October 2021 she played Lillian opposite Helen Monks in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Charlotte and Lillian, where she introduced her autobiography This Much Is True.[41] On 5 November she appeared on BBC One's The Graham Norton Show, where she discussed the book, explaining that it was written only because she "was paid an enormous amount of money". On 16 September the book was published by Hachette Books.[42]

In April 2022, Margolyes was the subject of the BBC documentary Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs in the Imagine... series, where she was interviewed by Alan Yentob.[43]

In November 2023, Margolyes appeared the voice of The Meep in "The Star Beast", the first of three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials.[44][45]

She appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity in February 2023.[46] Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "Charles Dickens and all his works".

Personal life

Margolyes is a lesbian.[47] On becoming an Australian citizen on Australia Day 2013,[48] she referred to herself as a "dyke" live on national television and in front of the then Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.[49] Since 1968, she has been in a relationship with Heather Sutherland,[27][50] an Australian now-retired professor of Indonesian studies.[51] They divide their time between homes in London and Kent in England, Robertson in Australia, and Montisi in Italy.[52][53][54][55]

Margolyes is a Patron of My Death My Decision, an organisation in the UK which seeks a more compassionate approach to dying, including the legal right to a medically assisted death, if that is a person's persistent wish.[56]

Margolyes is a supporter of Sense (the National Deafblind and Rubella Association) and was the host at the first Sense Creative Writing Awards, held at the Charles Dickens Museum in London in December 2006, where she read a number of works written by talented deafblind people.[57]

Margolyes stated in an interview with David Baddiel that she is an atheist.

Controversies

Margolyes has been accused on several occasions of making racist comments or jokes. During a 2012 appearance The Graham Norton Show, Margolyes said to Will.i.am "I'm just fascinated by you, because, unfortunately, I don't know many black people in show business”, and went on to state that it was surprising that a rapper would be philanthropic.[58] In 2016, Margoyles was accused of making a racist joke which left a black man reportedly "humiliated" at the London Film Convention.[59] [60]

During a 2022 appearance on This Morning, Margolyes responded to one caller to "lose weight", telling another "not to mix with other cripples".[61] In a separate 2022 interview with Radio Times, Margolyes came to the defence of J. K. Rowling, commenting that "There is a spectrum and people can be anywhere along that. There isn't one answer to all these trans questions".[62]

In 2023, Margoyles discussed her negative experience filming Little Shop of Horrors with Steve Martin,[63] something which Martin has publicly disputed.[64]

Political activism

Margolyes' political activism started at university. "I came from a very middle-class Jewish background, always Tory-voting", she later said. However, in the 1970s, she joined the Workers Revolutionary Party with other actors and Equity members such as Vanessa Redgrave, Frances de la Tour and Tom Kempinski.[65] She is a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians.[66] Margolyes said, "What I want to try to do is to get Jewish people to understand what's really going on, and they don't want to hear it. If you speak to most Jews and say, 'Can Israel ever be in the wrong?' they say, 'No. Our duty as Jews is to support Israel whatever happens.' And I don't believe that. It is our duty as human beings to report the truth as we see it."[67] She is also a campaigner for the respite care charity Crossroads.[48]

Margolyes is a member of the Labour Party and is registered to vote in Vauxhall. In August 2015, she was a signatory to a letter criticising The Jewish Chronicle's reporting of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's alleged associations with antisemites.[68] In November 2019, she endorsed the Labour Party in the UK general election because of their policies on the National Health Service.[69][70] Later in the month, along with other public figures, she signed a letter supporting Corbyn and describing him as a "beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia, and racism in much of the democratic world".[71]

Margolyes was very critical of the British Government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. She considered it "a public scandal" and "a disgrace". With the Prime Minister hospitalised suffering from COVID-19, Margolyes said "I had difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die."[72]

On 15 October 2022, after being interviewed by Justin Webb about the recently deceased Robbie Coltrane on BBC Radio 4's Today, she commented to the presenters that she had never expected to be in a seat that had just been vacated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt. She said, live on air, "When I saw him there I just said, 'You've got a hell of a job, the best of luck', and what I really wanted to say was 'Fuck you, you bastard!'"[73][74]

Author and comedian David Walliams says he used Margolyes as a model for the title character in his children's book Awful Auntie after an argument with her during a stage production, though he stressed that he has nothing against her and is a fan of her work.[75]

Filmography

Margolyes shortly after being presented with her Australian citizenship certificate by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, 2013

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1969A Nice Girl Like MePensione 'Mama'
1974On the GameNarratorUncredited
1975Rime of the Ancient MarinerDorothy Wordsworth
1977Stand Up, Virgin SoldiersElephant Ethel
Confessions from a Holiday CampBlackbirdUncredited Voice Role
The Battle of Billy's PondTour Guide
1978On a Paving Stone MountedPerformer
1980The AppleLandlady
The AwakeningDr Kadira
1981RedsWoman writing in notebookUncredited role
1982Crystal GazingNewsreader
1983YentlSarah
ScrubbersJones
1984Electric DreamsTicket Girl
1985The Good FatherJane Powell
Morons from Outer SpaceDoctor Wallace
1986Little Shop of HorrorsDental Nurse
1987Body ContactMrs. Zulu
1988Little DorritFlora Finching
1990The FoolMrs. Bowring
Pacific HeightsRealtor
I Love You to DeathMrs. Boca
1991The Butcher's WifeGina
Dead AgainLadyUncredited role
1992As You Like ItAudrey
1993The Age of InnocenceMrs. Mingott
Ed and His Dead MotherMabel Chilton
1994Immortal BelovedNanette Streicherová
1995BaltoGrandma Rosy
BabeFly the Female SheepdogVoice role
1996Different for GirlsPamela
Romeo + JulietThe Nurse
James and the Giant PeachAunt Sponge/GlowwormVoice role
1998MulanThe Matchmaker
Babe: Pig in the CityFly the Female SheepdogVoice role; cameo
The First Snow of WinterSean the duckVoice role
Left LuggageMrs. Goldman
CandyGisella
1999MagnoliaFaye BarringerUncredited role
End of DaysMabel
Dreaming of Joseph LeesSignora Caldoni
SunshineRose Sonnenschein
2000House!Beth
2001Not Afraid, Not AfraidPerformer
Cats & DogsSophie the Castle Maid
2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsProfessor Pomona Sprout
Plots with a ViewThelma & Selma
AloneCaseworker
2004Being JuliaDolly de Vries
Ladies in LavenderDorcas
ModiglianiGertrude Stein
End of the LineBag LadyShort Film
Chasing LibertyMaria
2006Happy FeetMrs. AstrakhanVoice role
Flushed AwayRita's Grandma
2007The DukesAunt Vee
2008How To Lose Friends and Alienate PeopleMrs. Kowalski
2009A Closed BookMrs. Kilbride
2010Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'HooleMrs. PlithiverVoice role
2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2Professor Pomona Sprout
2012Sir BilliBaroness Chantal McToffVoice role
The Wedding VideoPatricia
The Guilt TripAnita
2014The Legend of LongwoodLady Thyrza
Maya the BeeThe QueenVoice role
2017The Little Vampire 3DWulftrud
The Man Who Invented ChristmasMrs. Fisk
2018Early ManQueen OofeefaVoice role
2019H Is for HappinessMiss Bamford
2020Miss Fisher and the Crypt of TearsPrudence Stanley
2023My Happy EndingJudy
Pored tebeVera

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1965Theatre 625RitaEpisode: "Enter Solly Gold"
1967CrossroadsMrs. Perkins3 episodes
ITV Play of the WeekHeidiEpisode: "The English Climate"
Boy Meets GirlMariaEpisode: "Flight of the Kingfisher"
1968Dixon of Dock GreenAnnaEpisode: "An Ordinary Man"
1969Thirty-Minute TheatreVoiceEpisode: "The Boat to Addis Ababa"
ITV PlayhouseKathieEpisode: "The Ha Ha"
1972A Place in the SunMaidEpisode: "Achilles Heel"
Jackanory PlayhouseThe WitchEpisode: "The Wily Wizard and the Wicked Witch"
1972–1973Words and PicturesVarious Voices20 episodes
1973Doctor in ChargeDorisEpisode: "Men without Women"
1974World of LaughterVarious parts6 episodes
Fall of EaglesAnna VyrubovaEpisode: "Tell the King the Sky is Falling"
1975The Girls of Slender MeansJane Wright3 episodes
1976Christmas BoxMrs. KaplanTelevision film
AngelsJune Morris2 episodes
KizzyMrs. Doe2 episodes
The Glittering PrizesOlive WiseTV serial
1976, 1982Crown CourtMarilyn Munro; Mrs. King2 episodes
1976The Water MarginVoiceEnglish dub of Japanese series
1977Play for TodayVeronicaEpisode: "The Thin Edge of the Wedge"
SpasmsRose FinnTelevision film
1978MonkeyVoiceEnglish dub of Japanese series Saiyûki
52 episodes
1980The Lost TribeQueenieTV serial
Tales of the UnexpectedMary BurgeEpisode: "Fat Chance"
1981Take a Letter, Mr. JonesMaria6 episodes
A Kick Up the EightiesVarious roles3 episodes
The History ManMelissa Tordoroff3 episodes
1983The Black AdderInfanta Maria Escalosa of SpainEpisode: "The Queen of Spain's Beard"
1984FreudBaronessTV serial
1985Oliver TwistMrs. CorneyTV serial
Honour, Profit and PleasureElephant and CastleTelevision film
1986The Life and Loves of a She-DevilNurse Hopkins2 episodes
Blackadder IILady WhiteadderEpisode: "Beer"
A Little PrincessMiss Amelia6 episodes
Scotch and WryVariousTelevision film
1987Poor Little Rich Girl:
The Barbara Hutton Story
Elsa MaxwellTelevision film
1988Blackadder's Christmas CarolQueen VictoriaTelevision Special
Mr MajeikaWilhelmina Worlock2 episodes
1989Murderers Among UsMrs. RajzmanTelevision film
1990Orpheus DescendingVee Talbot
The FindingPoll
Screen TwoNellieEpisode: "Old Flames"
1991Tonight at 8.30Mrs. Wadhurst2 episodes
1992StalinNadezhda KrupskayaTelevision film
Frannie's TurnFrannie Escobar6 episodes
1993The Comic Strip Presents...MotherEpisode: "Demonella"
1994Just WilliamMiss PolliterEpisode: "William's Busy Day"
MoonacreOld Elspeth6 episodes
1995Cold Comfort FarmMrs. BeetleTelevision film
1997The IMAX NutcrackerSugar PlumShort film
The Phoenix and the CarpetCookBBC TV serial
The Place of LionsMiss ColeTelevision film
1998Vanity FairMiss CrawleyTV serial
1998, 2001RugratsShirley FinsterVoice; 3 episodes
1998The First Snow of WinterSean McDuckVoice; UK version
Supply & DemandChief Superintendent Edna ColleyTV serial
2000Dharma & GregChloeEpisode: "Midwife Crisis"
2004Agatha Christie's MarpleMrs. Price-RidleyEpisode: The Murder at the Vicarage
The Life and Death of Peter SellersPeg SellersTelevision film, HBO
2005Wallis & EdwardBessie MerrymanTelevision film
InconceivableMalvaEpisode: "Balls in Your Court"
2006Jam & JerusalemMrs. MidgeSeason 2, Episode 6
2008KingdomHennyEpisode 2.04
2009The Sarah Jane AdventuresLeef Slitheen-BlathereenVoice; 2 episodes
2010Tinga Tinga TalesGiraffe and SquirrelVoice; Recurring Role
Merlin[76]GrunhildaEpisode: "The Changeling"
2011Doc MartinShirleyEpisode: Born with a Shotgun
2012–2015Miss Fisher's Murder MysteriesPrudence Elizabeth Stanley12 episodes
2013HebburnMillieChristmas special
2014Nina Needs to Go!Nana SheilaVoice; 15 episodes
TrolliedRoseSeries 4
2016PlebsIonaEpisode: "The Cupid"
2016–2018RakeHuntley-Brown3 episodes
2016–2017Bottersnikes and GumblesWeathersnike3 episodes
2017BucketMim4 episodes
Family GuyRight EyeballVoice; Episode: "Emmy-Winning Episode"
2018–2021Call the MidwifeSister Mildred/Mother Mildred7 episodes
2019101 Dalmatian StreetBessieVoice; Episode: "A Summer to Remember"
2020The WindsorsQueen VictoriaEpisode: #3.1
2021Apple & OnionQueen Victoria SpongeVoice; Episode: "For Queen and Country"
2022Dog SquadSylvieVoice; 3 episodes[77]
2023Doctor WhoThe MeepVoice; "The Star Beast"
HildaAstridVoice; 4 episodes
Mog's ChristmasAuntVoice[78]

Non-fiction television

Year Title Role Notes
2005Dickens in AmericaHerself10 episodes
2016The Real Marigold HotelBBC TV documentary series
2018Miriam's Big American AdventureBBC TV documentary series
2019Miriam's Dead Good AdventureBBC TV documentary series
2020Miriam's Big Fat AdventureBBC TV documentary series
Miriam Margolyes: Almost AustralianABC TV documentary series
2021, 2022Miriam and Alan: Lost in ScotlandC4 TV documentary series[79]
2022Miriam Margolyes: Up for GrabsAn Alan Yentob imagine...[80][81] documentary for BBC TV[82]
Miriam Margolyes Australia UnmaskedABC TV documentary series[83]
Miriam's Dickensian ChristmasC4 TV documentary[84]
2023 Irish Road Trip with Miriam MargolyesSBS TV documentary series[85]

Notes

  • The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) – the voice of the Maiden from Mombasa (original version only; the character was not heard at all in the re-edited versions and another actor was never available in all the re-edited versions)
  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) – Peg Sellers – note this film was shown in cinemas in the UK, Ireland, and Australia – it aired on cable television on the HBO network in the US.

Stage

Year Title Role Venue
1970Fiddler on the RoofMatchmakerUK Tour
1972Threepenny OperaNellyPiccadilly Theatre, London
1974Canterbury TalesWife of BathBristol Old Vic
1975Kennedy's ChildrenPerformerArts Theatre, London
1976The White DevilZanche the MoorOld Vic Theatre, London
1978Cloud NinePerformerJoint Stock/Royal Court Tour
1979Flaming BodiesPsychiatristICA
198484 Charing Cross RoadHelen HanffColchester
1985-87Gertrude Stein and a CompanionGertrude SteinEdinburgh Festival
Hampstead Theatre
Australian Tour
1986Man Equals ManWidow BegbickAlmeida Theatre, London
1988Orpheus DescendingVee TalbotTheatre Royal Haymarket, London
1989–91Dickens' WomenPerformerEdinburgh Festival
Hampstead Theatre
Duke of York's Theatre, London
1993She Stoops to ConquerMrs. HardcastleQueen's Theatre, London
1995The Killing of Sister GeorgeJune BuckridgeAmbassadors Theatre, London
1999The Cherry OrchardMadame RanevskayaTheatre Royal, York
2001Romeo and JulietNurseAhmanson Theater, Los Angeles
2001The Vagina MonologuesPerformerArts Theatre, London
2003The Way of the WorldLady WishfortSydney Theatre Company
2004Blithe SpiritMadame ArcatiMelbourne Theatre Company
2006The Importance of Being EarnestMiss PrismAhmanson Theater, Los Angeles
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
2006WickedMadame MorribleApollo Victoria Theatre, London
2008George Gershwin Theater, New York
2009RealismPerformerMelbourne Theatre Company
2009EndgameNellDuchess Theatre, London
2010Me and My GirlThe DuchessCrucible Theatre, Sheffield
2011A Day in the Death of Joe EggGraceCitizens' Theatre, Glasgow
2012Dickens' WomenPerformerWorld Tour
2014Neighbourhood WatchAnaAdelaide State Theatre
2014I'll Eat You LastSue MengersMelbourne Theatre Company
2015The Importance of Being MiriamPerformerAustralian Tour
2017Madame RubinsteinHelena RubinsteinPark Theatre, London
2019The Lady in the VanMiss ShepherdMelbourne Theatre Company
2019Sydney & The Old GirlNell StockPark Theatre, London

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Refs
1989Los Angeles Drama Critics CircleSupporting ActressLittle DorritWon[86][87]
1991Laurence Olivier AwardBest Actress in a MusicalDickens' WomenNominated[88]
1993Sony Radio AwardBest Actress On RadioThe Queen and IWon[89]
1994British Academy Film AwardBest Supporting ActressThe Age of InnocenceWon[86][90]
1997The Talkies Performer of the YearOliver TwistWon[87]
2001Audiofile's Earphones AwardA Christmas CarolWon[91]
2007Theatregoer's Choice AwardBest Supporting Actress in a MusicalWickedWon[92]
2010Best Supporting Actress in a PlayEndgameWon[93]
2018Audiofile's Earphones AwardBleak HouseWon[94]

Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.[95]

Notes

  1. However, at least two others said it on British television before that: Brendan Behan on Panorama in 1956 (although his drunken slurring was not understood), and an anonymous man who painted the railings on Stranmillis Embankment alongside the River Lagan in Belfast, who in 1959 told Ulster TV's magazine show, Roundabout, that his job was "fucking boring".[18][19]

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