Miriam Margolyes is a British-Australian actress and winner of a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (1993).
She was also cast in the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011).
Margolyes was born on 18 May 1941 in Oxford, to parents Ruth Margolyes (mother) and Joseph Margoyles (father). She was their only child.
Meet her parents;
- Joseph Margolyes
Margolyes’ dad was born in 1899 and died in 1995.
He was a Scottish physician and general practitioner from the Gorbals area of Glasgow.
- Ruth Margolyes
Margolyes’ mother was born Ruth Sandman in 1905 and died in 1974.
Marygolyes’ mother was a property-developer and 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.
Margolyes’ maternal great-grandfather, Symeon Sandmann, was born in the Polish town of Margonin, which she [Miriam Margolyes] visited in 2013.