British-Australian actress Miriam Margolyes whose earliest roles were in theatre after several supporting roles in film and television, became very famous after winning a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (1993).
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With her versatile voice, Margolyes first gained recognition for her work as a voice artist;
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- In the 1970s, she recorded a soft-porn audio called Sexy Sonia: Leaves from my Schoolgirl Notebook.
- She also performed most of the supporting female characters in the dubbed Japanese action TV series Monkey.
- She also worked with the theatre company Gay Sweatshop and provided voiceovers in the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (credited as Mirium Margolyes).
Margolyes has also starred in productions in both the United Kingdom and Australia, including her 1989 one-woman show Dickens’ Women and the Australian premiere of the 2013 play, I’ll Eat You Last.
She was also cast in the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011).
She was born in in Oxford on 18 May 1941 and became an Australian citizen in 2013.
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