Never say never. After selling out last year Miriam Margolyes has announced a return to Edinburgh Fringe with Margolyes and Dickens: More Best Bits.
The 83-year-old actress will share some of her favourite Dickens characters with the audience, alongside outrageous and very funny stories from her own life.
Audiences will be invited to ask Margoyles questions – about her amazing career, her famous friends and her life experience and can be guaranteed funny, witty and erudite answers in return.
Born in Oxford and educated at Cambridge and now a dual UK and Australian citizen, Miriam Margolyes is a veteran of stage and screen, who has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. She was Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Her numerous other major films include Yentl, Little Shop of Horrors, I Love You To Death, End of Days, Sunshine, Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, Cold Comfort Farm and Magnolia. Amongst her many awards, she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for The Age of Innocence and was awarded the OBE for her services to drama in 2002. She was the voice of the Matchmaker in Mulan and Fly, the mother dog, in Babe.
Her TV credits include Old Flames, Freud, Life and Loves of a She Devil, Blackadder, The Girls of Slender Means, Oliver Twist, The History Man, Vanity Fair and Supply & Demand. Margolyes played naughty Grandma Rose in Sky’s comedy series Trollied and was a major part of the all-star cast in The Real Marigold Hotel for BBC1.
Miriam’s many passions includes her love for radio and is highly outspoken on talk shows, for which she is much in demand. She loves Martha Argerich and Cecilia Bartoli. She is a lesbian, a non-believing Jew and an Arsenal fan. She loathes Trump, Boris Johnson and Modi. She loves India, food, politics and Italy.
Margolyes and Dickens: More Best Bits will be at Pleasance @ The EICC from August 9 – 24.
Tickets here:
https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/margolyes-dickens-more-best-bits
