Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes (1941-) is a British born actress.

Born in Oxford on 18 May 1941, the only child of Ruth (née Walters; 1905–1974), an English property investor and developer, and Joseph Margolyes (1899–1995), a Scottish physician from the Gorbals area of Glasgow. She grew up in a Jewish family, with ancestors who moved to the UK from Belarus and Poland.

who holds both British and Australian citizenship. Her earliest roles were in theatre; after several supporting roles in film and television, she won a BAFTA Award for her role in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) and was cast in the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series.

Openly gay, she has been in a relationship with Heather Sutherland (), an Australian professor of Indonesian studies, and they divide their time between homes in London and Kent in England, Robertson in Australia, and Tuscany in Italy. She has starred in productions in England, Australia and the USA. She became an Australian citizen in 2013.

In 1989, she co-wrote and performed a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, playing 23 characters from Dickens' novels. This shows opening season in 1989–91 played at the Edinburgh Festival, the Hampstead Theatre and the Duke of York's Theatre, London. It also toured widely over the subsequent years, and was taken to various countries, including South Africa (in 19**).