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Miriam Margolyes is a British and Australian comedian, writer, and actress. Known for her work as a character actor across film, television, and stage, she received the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), and achieved international prominence with her portrayal of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.
“I now regret it because it caused the person I loved the most pain she could not bear. I should have been aware that to tell her was very wrong. It also hurts me that she was not then able to live to see my success.”
“[On mortality] If you are a Jew, and I am, it is not a subject that is ever far away. The Holocaust, in which I lost no one I knew, scarred me forever. And my life is informed by knowledge of it. I'm a jolly little soul but at the back of the jollity there is a knowledge of despair.”
“For 11 years they must have had intercourse but never complete[ly], but in the air raid, in the heat of the terror, I was created.”
“Nobody thinks they've had the career they deserve. And I want to be as important as Judi and Maggie and all the others, you know. And I think I'm bloody good — but nobody else agrees with me.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
Holy Days
2026 · as Sister Luke
Early Man
2018 · as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
The Little Vampire 3D
2017 · as Wulftrud (voice)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · as Mrs. Fisk
Maya the Bee Movie
2014 · as Queen (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · as Pomona Sprout
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · as Mrs. Kowalski
Happy Feet
2006 · as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Flushed Away
2006 · as Rita's Grandma (voice)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Being Julia
2004 · as Dolly de Vries
Ladies in Lavender
2004 · as Dorcas
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · as Pomona Sprout
Undertaking Betty
2002 · as Thelma & Selma
Cats & Dogs
2001 · as Sophie the Castle Maid
End of Days
1999 · as Mabel
Mulan
1998 · as The Matchmaker (voice)
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