Miriam Margolyes is a British-Australian actress who has achieved incredible success on both stage and screen. Miriam is an award-winning actress whose accolades include winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress Award for The Age of Innocence, Best Supporting Actress in the LA Critics Circle Awards for Little Dorrit, and a Sony Radio Award for Best Supporting Actress for her recording of Oliver Twist.

Her voice work has been internationally acclaimed, and she is regarded as the most accomplished female voice in Britain: she has recorded many audio books including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Alice in Wonderland, and Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Matilda, Pinnocchio, The Worst Witch series, and The Queen & I, which is one of the best-selling audio books in the world. She has voiced many TV documentaries, including The Human Body, and numerous commercials, the most famous probably being the Manikin Cigar ads, the Cadbury’s Caramel Bunny & Dolly, the Chimp in the PG Tips Campaign. She is now the voice of Mama in the Dolmio TV commercials. She is also Nana Sheila in the Disney Miniseries NINA NEEDS TO GO. Her credits from her extensive and celebrated career include, for film Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter series, Baz Lurman’s Romeo and Juliet, Yentl, Little Shop of Horrors, I Love You To Death, End of Days, Sunshine, Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, Cold Comfort Farm & Magnolia. She starred in Stephen Hopkins’ The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Modigliani, Istvan Szabo’s Being Julia, and Ladies in Lavender. Miriam’s credits for television include Old Flames, Freud, Life and Loves of a She Devil, Blackadder, The Girls of Slender Means, Oliver Twist, The History Man, Vanity Fair, Supply & Demand, Merlin, and Trollied. Miriam’s stage credits include The West End and Broadway production of Wicked, Sydney & The Old Girl (Park), The Lady in the Van (Melbourne), Me & My Girl (The Duchess), Endgame (The Duchess), The Vagina Monologues (Arts), and She Stoops To Conquer (West End).