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Became an Australian citizen on 26 January 2013. She was part of the Australia Day ceremony attended by Prime Minister Julia Gillard (who was born in Wales).

Appearing in the Broadway production of "Wicked". [April 2008]

In the Independent on Sunday [UK] 2006 Pink List - a list of the most influential gay men and women - Margolyes came no. 93, down from last year's no. 29.

Rehersing for a tour of Importance of Being Earnest with Lynn Redgrave. The tour stops in LA and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. [2005]

Most recently Margolyes appeared in Stephen Hopkins' The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Modigliani (2004), István Szabó's Being Julia (2004) and Ladies in Lavender (2004) (with Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench), which is opening at the NY Tribeca Festival on April 23rd.

Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).

She was the voice of Fly the dog in Babe (1995).

A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence (1993) she also received Best Supporting Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role in Little Dorrit (1987) and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress on "Radio" in 1993.

She was Franny in the CBS sitcom Frannie's Turn (1992) and starred recently in the Miss Marple episode, "Murder at the Vicarage". Stage credits include "The Vagina Monologues", Sir Peter Hall's Los Angeles production of "Romeo & Juliet", "She Stoops to Conquer" and "Orpheus Descending" (all for Sir Peter Hall), "The Killing of Sister George", "The Threepenny Opera" (Tony Richardson), Michael Lindsay-Hogg's "The White Devil" at The Old Vic, the Bristol Old Vic production of "The Canterbury Tales" and her own award-winning, one-woman show, "Dickens' Woman".

Most memorable TV credits include Screen Two: Old Flames (1990), Freud (1984), The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986), Blackadder (1982), The Girls of Slender Means (1975), _Oliver Twist (1982) (TV)_, The History Man (1981), Vanity Fair (2004) , Supply & Demand (1997).

Was offered the role of Professor Laird in Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks: Part One (1984). Chole Ashcroft took the role.

Major credits during her long and celebrated career include Yentl (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), I Love You to Death (1990), End of Days (1999), Sunshine (1999), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Cats & Dogs (2001), Magnolia (1999) and she was Prof.

Lifelong friends with Jane Cussons, Patricia Hodge and Mary Tamm, her co-stars in The Girls of Slender Means (1975).

Her mother Ruth died in 1974 and her father Joseph died in 1995.

She has been with her partner, an Australian academic, since 1968.

Since 1967, she has been in a relationship with Heather Sutherland.

Aged 21 or 22 she was a contestant on ITV quiz show 'University Challenge' representing Newnham College, Cambridge in 1963. Although the videotape no longer exists, still off-air photographs of her on the team panel do survive and can be found online. Apparently she swore after answering a question wrong and this had to be edited out of the broadcast tape.

Daughter of Joseph (1899-1995) and Ruth (née Walters) Margolyes (1905-1974).