British actress and voice artist, born 18 May 1941 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
She was awarded O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2002 Queens New Years Honours List for her services to drama.
Works and has homes in the US, UK and Australia.
Is of Belarussian-Jewish descent.
In the Independent on Sunday [UK] 2006 Pink List - a list of the most influential gay men and women - Margolyes came no. 93, down from last years no. 29.
Attended Oxford High School GDST.
Was offered the role of Professor Laird in "Doctor Who" {Resurrection of the Daleks: Part One (#21.11)} . Chole Ashcroft took the role.
Became an Australian citizen on 26 January 2013. She was part of the Australia Day ceremony attended by Prime Minister Julia Gillard (who was born in Wales).
She took time out of her career to nurse her mother and spent a quarter of a million pounds on full-time care for her father. She supports charities for disabled people and their carers.
Her mother Ruth died in 1974 and her father Joseph died in 1995.
She has been with her partner, an Australian academic, since 1968.
She is a huge admirer of the works of Charles Dickens and has toured the world in a one-woman show, Dickens Women, inspired by the females in his works.
Rehersing for a tour of Importance of Being Earnest with Lynn Redgrave. The tour stops in LA and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Doing The Importance of Being Earnest on Broadway.
(July 2004) Sydney, Australia
Playing Madame Morrible in the London production of Wicked.
(January 2013) Canberra, Australia: Becoming a naturalised Australian citizen - "Ive wanted to be an Australian for a very long time. My partner is Australian."
(April 2008) Appearing in the Broadway production of "Wicked".
Lifelong friends with Jane Cussons , Patricia Hodge and Mary Tamm , her co-stars in "The Girls of Slender Means" .
Voiced the Cadburys Caramel Bunny in the British adverts.
Despite playing their grandmother in The Age of Innocence , Margoyles is just 17 years older than Michelle Pfeiffer and 30 years older than Winona Ryder.
As you certainly know, Queen Victoria did not believe in lesbianism. So,that was why it was never a criminal offense, in the way homosexuality,was, because she thought it was impossible.
Nowadays people say that you must let children be what they are, but,when I was growing up the parents defined the child. And my parents had,a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.
[on her mother] She took centre-stage in our lives. She was the star.
Communication is something we all take for granted.
I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.
I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everything. She was my closest confidante always. I had no secrets from her.
