Miriam Margolyes Net Worth

Miriam Margolyes's Quotes

• I'm not the sort of woman men boast of having slept with.
• As you certainly know, Queen Victoria did not believe in lesbianism. So that was why it was never a criminal offense, in the way homosexuality was, because she thought it was impossible.
• I'm an actress and I am a scholar of English literature. And I never know which part of that is more important to me. I think it obviously must be the acting part because otherwise I would have become an academic, which I didn't do. But I've always had a love of English literature and particularly of Charles Dickens.
• I think it's very likely that because Dickens [Charles Dickens] was able to depict - in a way that I don't think had ever been done before - people's real lives, it had an enormous response among the poor. So he was the last great artist whose work was appreciated by everybody. People at the very top and the very bottom loved Dickens. Queen Victoria asked him to come and read for her and people in the street would clap him as he went. And he very much needed that contact with real people. It mattered to him. He felt, I think, that he was a man of the people. And he was.
• Nowadays people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up the parents defined the child. And my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Interesting Facts about Miriam Margolyes

1. She was awarded O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama.
2. 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.
3. Attended Oxford High School GDST.
4. Was offered the role of Professor Laird in Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks: Part One (1984). Chole Ashcroft took the role.
5. Since 1968, her partner has been Australian academic Heather Sutherland. 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).
6. She is a huge admirer of the works of Charles Dickens and has toured the world in a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, inspired by the females in his works.
7. Playing Madame Morrible in the London production of Wicked. [December 2006]
8. Canberra, Australia: Becoming a naturalised Australian citizen - "I've wanted to be an Australian for a very long time. My partner is Australian." [January 2013]
9. Appearing in the Broadway production of "Wicked". [April 2008]
10. Lifelong friends with Jane Cussons, Patricia Hodge and Mary Tamm, her co-stars in The Girls of Slender Means (1975).
11. Voiced the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny in the British adverts.
12. Despite playing their grandmother in The Age of Innocence (1993), Margoyles is just 17 years older than Michelle Pfeiffer and 30 years older than Winona Ryder.
13. Of Belarussian-Jewish descent, she is the daughter of Joseph (1899-1995) and Ruth (née Walters) Margolyes (1905-1974). She took time out of her career to nurse her mother and spent a quarter of a million pounds on full-time care for her father. She supports charities for disabled people and their careers.
14. Lived and worked in the U.S. for 16 years.
15. 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.
16. Despite playing her mother in The Age of Innocence (1993), Margoyles is just 3 years older than Geraldine Chaplin.